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RILES AND BY-LAWS 



Of THE 



BOARD or EDUCATION 



Of THE 



DISTRICT OF COLIMBIA 



BOARD OF EDUCATION 
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



RULES 



FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



OF THE 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

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WASHINGTON, D. C. 

THE CARPENTER PRESS CO. 

1907. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES 
OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

October 9, 1907. ^hf.^ ^ 01 

The Board of Education, / , 

Ladies and Gentlemen: In framing these rules 
and by-laws of the Board of Education for the 
government of the public schools of the District 
of Columbia, your committee has used the old 
rules as a basis, changing them materially, how- 
ever, to meet conditions and make them conform 
to new laws and decisions. 

It is thought that the proposed rules are prac- 
tical and workable and that they will be the means 
of placing the schools on a better educational and 
business basis. As far as practicable the commit- 
tee has segregated the educational and business 
features. Whenever the committee was convinced 
that the rules in other systems were better, it has 
not hesitated to obtain advantages tesed on ex- 
perience elsewhere. 

Among the more important changes have been 
the defining of the duties of the superintendent, 
the assistant superintendents, directors, super- 
visors, heads of departments, principals, teachers, 
janitors and attendance officers. The number of 
committees has been increased. Definite time has 
been provided for leaves of absence. 

The fixing of the pay of substitutes is an impor- 
tant feature. It is thought that the proposed ar- 
rangement is logical and will prove satisfactory. 

The committee has had the active cooperation 
of the officers in this work and we desire to assure 
them of our appreciation. 

The committee had hoped to present these rules 
more concisely, but after deliberation and observa- 
tion submits them in their present form for your 
action. 

Respectfully submitted, 
(Signed) W. V. Cox, Chairman. 
Ellen Spencer Mussey. 
John F. Cook. 



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BOARD QF EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT 
OF COLUMBIA 

' FRANKLIN SCHOOL BUILDING 

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MEMBERS. 

Mr. James F. Oyster 900 Pa. Ave. N.W. 

Mr. WiIvUam V. Cox Second National Bank. 

Mrs. Mary Church TerrEi,i. 326 T St. N.W. 

Mr. John F. Cook 11 18 Sixteenth St N.W. 

Mrs. Eli.En Spencer Mussey Nat'l Met. Bank. 

Mr. W. D. Hoover.. 15th St. and N. Y. Ave. N.W. 
Dr. Barton W. EvErmann. .1425 Clifton St. N.W. 

Mrs. Justika R. Hill 1738 Q St N.W. 

M^. ?acHARi> R. Horner 604 F St N.W. 



OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 

President: 

Mr. James F. Oyster, 900 Pa. Ave. N.W. 

Vice-President: 

D:u Barton W. Evkrmann, 1425 Clifton St N.W. 

Secretary: 

Mr. Hakry O. Hine, 3204 Highland Ave, 

Cleveland Park. 



STANDING COMMITTEES. 

Ways and Means — Mr. Cox, Mr. Hoover, Mr. 

Cook. 
Elementary Schools and Night Schools — Mr. 

Hoover, Mr. Oyster, Dr. Evermann, Mr. 

Cook, Mrs. Terrell. 
Normal, High and Manual Training — Dr. Ever- 
mann, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Homer, Mrs. Hill, 

Mrs. Terrell. 
Text-Books and Supplies — Dr. Evermann, Mr. 

Hoover, Mrs. Hill. 
Inspection and Disposal of Unserviceable Material 

— Mr. Cook, Mr. Oyster, Mrs. Mussey. 
Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors and Sanitation 

— Mr. Hoover, Mr. Cox, Mr. Oyster. 
Water Supply and Drainage — Mr. Horner, Mr. 

Cook, Mrs. Mussey. 
Rules and By-Laws — Mr. Cox, Mr. Cook, Mrs. 

Mussey. 



Military Affairs and Athletics — Mr. Oyster, Mr. 

Cox, Mr. Homer. /!/.{ r^ 

Playgrounds and Special Schools — Mrs. Mussey/ ' 

Mrs. Terrell, Dr. Evermann. 
School Gardens^Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Terrell, Mr. 

Horner. 
Libraries and Lectures — ^Mrs. Terrell, Mrs. Hill, 

Dr. Evermann. 



SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 
Amendment of Public Act No. 254 — Mrs. Mussey, 

Mr. Cox, Mr. Cook, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Oyster. 
Teachers' Retirement — Mr. Cox, Dr. Evermann, 

Mrs. Hill. 
Awards and Prizes (Gait Legacy prise and 

Daughters of the American Revolution) — 

Mrs. Mussey, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Terrell. 



OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT. 
WiLUAM E. Chancellor^ 

Superintendent of Public Schools. 
Percy M. Hughes, 

Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools. 
RoscoE C. Bruce, 

Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools. 



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BY-LAWS 



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GUIDANCE 



OF THE 



BOARD OF EDUCATION 



OF THE 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Article IV.— Duties of OMcers. 

Section L The president shall preside at the 
meetings of the board and shall appoint commit- 
tees not otherwise ordered. His approval shall 
be necessary on all pay-rolls and requisitions for 
supplies. 

Sec. 11. The vice-president shall act as, and 
perform the duties of the president in the absence 
or at the request of the latter. 

Sec. III. The secretary- of the board shall have 
charge of the office force and shall be the custo- 
dian of all the records of the Board of Education. 

He shall keep a journal of its proceedings and 
shall conduct all correspondence pertaining to his 
office; shall administer the oath of office to all 
officers and employees; shall certify to all pay- 
rolls and make and certify to all requisitions for 
supplies; shall submit a monthly statement of 
balances on hand to the Committee on Ways and 
Means, and shall perform such other duties per- 
taining to his office as are from time to time re- 
quired of him by the board or its president. 

Article V. — Committees. 
1 Section I. The standing committees shall bei]^*'* 
. ' I. On Ways and Means. 
; II. On Elementary Schools and Night Schools. 

III. On Normal, High, Manual Training and 

Trade Schools. 

IV. On Text-Books and Supplies. 

V. On Inspection and Disposal of Unservice- 
able Materials. 
VI. On Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors and 
Sanitation. 
VII. On Water Supply and Drainage. 
VIII. On Rules and By-laws. 
,. IX. On Military Affairs and Athletics. 
. X. On Playgrounds and Special Schools. 
XI. On School Gardens. 
XII, On Libraries and Lectures. 

Article VI. — Duties of Committees. 
Section I. The Committee on Ways and Means 
shall_ keep itself advised of the amount of money 
provided for different school purposes, the method 
of expenditure of the same and the state of the 
account, reporting monthly to the Board of Edu- 
cation the balances on hand. 

It shall, after consultation with the superinten- 
dent, prepare and submit to the board, not later 
than September 25th of each year, the annual 
estimates for the maintenance of the schools, and 
shall reoresent the board in all matters of legis- 
lation for the support of the public schools^ 

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All recommendations of the superintendent af- 
fecting expenditures shall, unless otherwise or- 
dered, be referred to said conunittee to be trans- 
mitted with its recommendations to the Board of 
Education for action thereon. 

Sec. II. The Committee on Elementary and 
Night Schools shall have general charge of all 
matters relating to principals, teachers and courses 
of study in elementary sdiools and the organiza- 
tion of such schools. 

Nominations made by the superintendent for 
the appointment, promotion, transfer or dismissal 
of principals or teachers in elementary or night 
schools, or of directors or special teachers therein 
and recommendations made by the superintendent 
of schools with reference to the organization of 
courses of study in said schools, shall, unless 
otherwise ordered, be referred to said committee 
and shall be transmitted to the Board of Educa- 
tion at its next meeting with recommendations as 
to approval or disapproval. 

Sec. III. The Committee on Normal, High, 
Manual Training and Trade Schools shall have 
general charge over all matters relating to the 
principals, teachers and courses of study in such 
schools. 

Nominations made by the superintendent of 
schools for the appointment, promotion, transfer 
or dismissal of principals or teachers in such 
schools shall, unless otherwise ordered by the 
board, be referred to said committee and shall 
be transmitted to the Board of Education at its 
next meeting with recommendations. 

Sec. IV. The Committee on Text-Books shall 
keep itself advised of the kind, cost and character 
of text-books, maps, charts and school apparatus 
in use or proposed for use in the schools. 

All recommendations of the superintendent of 
schools in regard to the introduction or change 
of text-books, shall, unless otherwise ordered by 
the board, be referred to said committee and be 
transmitted to the board with its recommenda- 
tions. 

Sec. V. The Committee on Inspection and Dis- 
posal of Unserviceable Materials shall keep itself 
advised of the condition of all school furniture, 
equipment and materials. It shall from time to 
time report to the board specific recommendations 
looking to the improvement of said furniture and 
eq[uipment and devise methods for the prompt 
disposal of all womout materials of whatever 
kind. 



., Se.c. VI. The Committee on Sites, Buildings, 
Repairs, Janitors and' Sanitation shall, from time 
to time, rep6rt to the board the condition of 
school buildings and rooms, and shall make such 
recorhmendations with reference thereto as in its 
judgment may seem fit; it shall closely supervise 
the work of the department of repairs ; it shall 
give special attention to all sanitary matters in 
the city schools and shall suggest from time to 
time locations for future school buildings. 

All nominations of janitors and caretakers shall, 
unless otherwise ordered, be referred to said 
committee to be reported to the board with rec- 
ommendations. 

. Sec. VII. The Committee on Water Supply 
and Drainage shall keep itself advised of the pro- 
vision made for a proper water supply and drain- 
age of school buildings and grounds and of all 
premises rented for school purposes, and make 
recommendations to the board from time to time 
looking to a betterment of general sanitary condi- 
tions in all such school premises. 

Sec. VIIL The Committee on Rules and By- 
Laws shall submit to the board such changes in 
and amendments to the rules and by-laws as it 
may from time to time deem necessary, and shall 
also consider and report upon such amendments 
as may be referred to it by the board. 

Sec. IX, _ The Committee on Military Affairs 
and Athletics shall have general charge of all 
matters pertaining to military organization and 
military instruction and athletics in the public 
schools. ' '\ . 

. Sec. X. The Committee on Playgrounds and 
Special Schools shall have general charge of all 
matters relating to playgrounds, ungraded schools 
and schools for defective pupils and their courses 
of study' and the work of the truant officers. 

Nominations of principals, teachers and care- 
takers and recommendations of the superinten- 
dent as to the management of such playgrounds 
and schools, shall, unless otherwise ordered, be 
referred t6- said committee and shall be transmit- 
ted, with its recommendations to the board for 
■.actio'ii thereon.' '. % • ,. , 

Section XI. " The ebtrimittee on School Gardens 
shall have general charge of all matters relating 
'to school gardens. 

All nominations of teachers made by the super- 
.inteiident 'arid all plans for the maintenance and 
; extenSA on ; of" such school gardehs shall, unless 
b'tff^'M^i'se 'otdef^d",' be referred to said committee 



and by it reported to the board with recommen- 
dations. 

Sec. XII. The Committee on Libraries and 
Lectures shall have general charge of all matters 
relating to school libraries and to free lectures 
maintained by the Board of Education, and all 
nominations and recommendations of the super- 
intendent relating thereto shall, unless otherwise 
ordered, be referred to the said committee to be 
transmitted to the board with its approval or 
otherwise. 

Sec. XIII. Special Committees may be ap- 
pointed from time to time, and, unless otherwise 
ordered, they shall cease to exist upon the per- 
formance of the special duty to which they are 
assigned. 

Article XIV.— Reports and Resolutions. 

Section I. All reports of committees shall be 
in writing and shall be signed by all the members 
who concur therein. 

Sec. II. No resolut-ion-shall be acted upon un- 
less presented in writing over the signature of the 
member presenting it, and when the question is 
put every member present shall vote, unless ex- 
cused by a vote of the majority of those present. 
Article XV. — Rules of Order. 

Robert's Rules of Order shall be the standard 
of parliamentary practice in all meetings of the 
board and of its committees. 

Article XVI. — Amendments. 

The by-laws and rules may be altered, amend- 
ed, repealed, or suspended at any stated meeting 
of the board by a majority of vote of the whole 
board ; Provided, That notice of any proposed 
change shall have been mailed to each member at 
least three days before the stated meeting at which 
action is to be taken. 



OATHS OF OFFICE. f^ 

Under an order of the Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia, dated June 24, 1903, it is 
provided — • 

"That each officer and employee of the Dfe- 
trict of Columbia above the grade of day 
laborer, who has not taken, subscribed and 
filed an oath of office as required by the order 
■rij of December 2, 1897, under his most recent 
'-;■- appointment, shall immediately do so; and 
hereafter heads of offices in said District will 
be held responsible that no such officer or 
employee, in their respective offices, shall be 



permitted to enter upon duty until he, or she, 
has taken, subscribed and filed such oath.... 
no compensation will be paid to any officer or 
employee not having complied with this or- 
der." 
In compliance with the foregoing order it will 
be impossible to certify the pay of any employee 
until he has subscribed to the proper oath of office. 
All persons newly appointed must call at the 
office of the secretary of the Board of Education, 
either before, or on the day of the commencement 
of their duties, and comply with the foregoing 
order. 

RESIDENCES. 
Every employee must, on the opening day of 
school, report his residence to the secretary of the 
Loard of Education on forms to be provided. 
Every change of residence during the year must 
be promptly reported on cards to be provided. 



EXTRACTS FROM DECISIONS OF THE 
COMPTROLLER. 

The annual increase of salary is in the nature 
of longevity pay, that is, increase of pay for length 
of service. 

If promotions are made from grade to grade 
only, there will be no increase of salary by reason 
of promotions from the first to the second grade, 
or from the third to the fourth, the fifth to the 
sixth, or the sixth to the seventh. 

On promotion from the second to the third 
grade, or from the fourth to the fifth grade, or 
the seventh to the eighth, the teacher would by 
operation of law be advanced to the next higher 
class. 

When a teacher is promoted from one class to 
another he will receive the salary in the class to 
-vz-hich promoted which is next above his salary 
in the class to which he was assigned prior to his 
promotion. 

When a teacher is reduced to a lower class, un- 
less otherwise provided by law, he can be allowed 
only the minimum salary in that class, all other 
salaries therein representing increase of pay for 
length of service. 

Each emplo3ree who has been employed in the 
prior year, if his work is satisfactory, shall receive 
his increased pay on the following dates, whether 
he has been employed the whole or only part of 
such year : 



All employees on the twelve instalment roll 
on July I. 

All employees on the ten instalment roll 
on September i. 

A teacher on probation should not be classified 
as a qualified teacher and should not become en- 
titled to the annual increase of salary until he has 
served as a qualified teacher during a second 
year. Therefore the salary of a newly appointed 
teacher in the normal, high or manual training 
schools for the second year would be the same as 
for the first year, that is, $i,ooo. 

Salaries of employees paid in ten monthly in- 
stalments begin on September i of each year. 

Salaries of employees paid in twelve monthly 
instalments begin on July i of each year. 

Employees specified in Section 4 (except clerks 
in the administrative offices), the principal of the 
normal, high and manual training schools pro- 
vided for in Section 7, and the directors and as- 
sistant directors provided for in Section 8 are 
classed as teachers. 

Employees specified in Section 9 and the clerks 
in the administrative offices are classed as officers. 

Teachers of the normal, high and manual train- 
ing schools can be promoted from Group A to 
Group B of class six, for superior work, after 
fulfilling the requirements of Section 6. 

Employees on the ten instalment roll who are 
newly appointed by the Board of Education sub- 
sequent to September ist and who enter their 
duties on the opening day of school in September 
are entitled to pay from the date of actual appoint- 
ment by the Board of Education only. 



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Iqffto 'to 



RULES 

FOR THE GOVERNMENT 



OF THE 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



OF THE 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Report 
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Make annual 
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orders of supt. 
and boafdi 



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first assistant. 



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of study for 
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manual 
trainiuer 
schools. 



2. At the close of each school year, the superin- 
tendent shall prepare a table showing the estimated 
enrollment by grades, of pupils in each school 
building in the District, for the ensuing year and 
present an annual report. 

21:, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS. 

."'3. The assistant superintendents for white and 
for colored schools shall execute all orders as di- 
rected by the superintendent of public schools, in 
accordance with the rules of the Board of Educa- 
tion, and shall perform such other services to the 
board and to its committees as may be required. 
They shall maintain stated and regular office 
hours, visit schools, conduct all correspondence at- 
taching to their offices ; assist the superintendent 
in examinations of pupils, organize such meetings 
of officers and teachers as may seem expedient, 
and shall be first assistants to the superintendent 
for their respective jurisdictions. 
. The assistant superintendent of white schools 
shall, in the absence of the superintendent, upon 
leave granted, be his deputy in respect to all rpat- 
ters not especially delegated by Act of Congress, 
to the superintendent of public schools, or to the 
assistant superintendent for colored schools, oc- 
cupying at such times a seat at the meetings of 
the Board of Education and performing all such 
duties for which he may have the written au- 
thorization of the superintendent of public schools. 

The respective assistant superintendents shall 
have the direction and control of the admission 
of pupils to the several high and manual training 
schools. This shall include all pupils transferred 
from the eighth grades and those entering from 
other schools. 

No pupils shall be demoted from the high 
schools to the grades without the written approval 
of the respective assistant superintendents. 

With a view to the unification of the educational 
work of the white high schools and of all aca- 
demic and scientific subjects in the McKinley 
Manual Training School and the Business High 
School, the white assistant superintendent shall, 
with the approval of the superintendent of schools 
and the Board of Education, prescribe the courses 
of study in the several high and manual' training 
schools! He shall reconunend to the superin- 
tendent" of schools all textbooks to be used Jn 
?uch courses. He ishall /rom time to time, with 
the assistance of the "he.^ds of departments, give 
§uch exarriinati6ns! as ghall test the work done in 
the several schools. 
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With a view to the unification of the educational 
work of the colored high schools and of all aca- 
demic and scientific subjects in the Armstrong 
Manual Training School, the colored assistant su- 
perintendent shall, with the approval of the su- 
perintendent of schools and the Board of Educa- 
tion, prescribe the courses of study in the several J^"q|^®^,j°* 
high and manual training schools. He shall assistant supt. 
recommend to the superintendent of schools all 
textbooks to be used in such courses. He shall, 
from time to time, with the assistance of the 
heads of departments, give such examinations as 
shall test the work done in the several schools. 

An assistant superintendent may be dismissed 
for cause. 

DIRECTOR OF INTERMEDIATE 
INSTRUCTION. 

4. The director of intermediate instruction for 
the white schools, shall, under the direction of the 
superintendent of schools, have charge of the Shall 
standardizing of educational work of grades five standardize-: 
to eight inclusive, and shall perform such other grades five 
duties as the superintendent of schools or the toeig-ht. 
Board of Education may direct. He shall work 

to give larger unity and general effectiveness to 
the school work in all its phases, such results to 
be secured by grade meetings of teachers and 
through visits and study of conditions and needs, 
and by consultation with the supervising princi- 
pals individually, and as a body in their meetings. |J^ade^*^^^ 

meetings, 

SUPERVISOR OF MANUAL TRAINING. 

5. The supervisor of manual training shall, 
under the direction of the superintendent of 

schools, have charge of the unification and gen- Have charge 

eral supervision of the manual training instruc- tra^^ng^ 

tion in the white schools and shall perform such instruction 

duties as the superintendent of schools or the in white 

Board of Education may direct. schools. 

SUPERVISING PRINCIPALS. 

6. Each supervising principal shall be reHeved sbaii 

as far as practicable of purely clerical duties and supervise 

shall, under the direction of the superintendent, ^nstruction 

have supervision of instruction, organization and organization. 
management of all school work in all the grades, 

and for these he shall be responsible, as well as Responsible 

for the observance and enforcement of all school enforcement 

rules and regulations in his division. of rules. 

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Office hours. 



Shall consult 
with 

superinlend- 
ent. 



Shall keep 
correct 
accotints, etc. 



Shall furnish 
inventories 
of property. 



Shall see that 
all teachers 
are advised as 
to rules. 



Shall classify 
pupils and 
visit schools. 

Shall 

endeavor to 
improve 
methods of 
instruction. 

Shall notify 
attendance 
officer of 
absentees. 



He shall be in his office thirty minutes before 
the time of opening each morning session of the 
schools, and when not engaged in examining- 
schools (under the direction of the superinten- 
dent), from 3:30 to 4 o'clock each afternoon that 
tLe schools are in session. He shall attend at the 
office of the superintendent for the purpose of 
consultation at such times as the superintendent 
may designate. 

He shall be held responsible for all books is- 
sued to him and for the economical use of all sup- 
plies. 

Each supervising principal shall keep, accord- 
ing to forms approved by the Board of Educa- 
tion, correct accounts and records of all matters 
committed to his keeping by the superintendent; 
such accounts and records to be at all times open- 
to the inspection of the members of the Board 
of Education, the secretary of the Board of Edu- 
cation and the superintendent. 

He shall see that all property belonging to the 
schools of the District of Columbia assigned to 
his division is properly listed by the various 
building principals who shall be responsible for 
its proper care, use and safekeeping. Inventories 
of property and unexpended supplies shall be 
.furnished to the secretary of the Board of Edu- 
cation through the supervising principals at , the 
close of each school year, ;,; 

The supervising principal shall see that all 
teachers within his jurisdiction are promptly noti- 
fied and duly advised as to all rules and orders 
pertaining to the schools, and will be held re- 
sponsible for the impartial enforcement of such 
regulations; he shall see that all the prescribed 
records are neatly, regularly and correctly kept by 
the teachers, and that all reports and returns, re- 
quired by the Board of Education, the secretary 
of the board or the superintendent are promptly 
made. He shall, under the direction of the su- 
perintendent, classify the pupils in the various 
grades, visit each school as often as practicable, 
endeavor to improve the methods of instruction,, 
make such reports as may be required of him, and 
shall in every way possible, cooperate with the 
superintendent. 

7. The supervising principals of the several di- 
visions shall notify the attendance officer every 
Saturday, in writing, regarding all unexcused ab- 
sentees. 

DIRECTOR OF PRIMARY INSTRUCTION. 

8. The director of primary instruction shall' 



have the same relation to the work and the teach- 
ers of the first four grades as that which the di- 
rector of intermediate instruction sustains to the 
last four grades. He shall work to give larger 
unity and general effectiveness to the school work 
in all its phases, such results to be secured by 
grade meetings of teachers, through visits and 
study of conditions and needs and by consulta- 
tion with the supervising principals individually 
and in a body in their meetings. 

DIRECTORS OF SPECIAL STUDIES. 

9. Directors and assistant directors of special 
studies shall, under the direction of the superin- 
tendent of schools, have charge of the standard- 
izing and general supervision of the instruction in 
their respective departments. 

HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. 

10. (i) Heads of departments shall be re- 
sponsible to the superintendent of schools and to 
the respective assistant superintendents and shall 
perform all such duties as may be imposed upon 
them by the superintendent. 

(2) Under the direction of the superintendent 
of schools, and in the case of the colored schools 
under the sole charge of the colored assistant su- 
perintendent, the head of departments shall have 
duties as follows: 

I. There shall be at least two conferences 
each half year, of all heads of departments 
with the principals of high and manual train- 
ing schools. 

II. Following such conference, heads of de- 
partments shall hold at least two conferences 
with the teachers of their departments each 
half year, and such individual conferences 
with the teachers of their departments as the 
case may require. 

III. Heads of departments shall visit the 
classes of each teacher in their respective de- 
partments at least once each half year, and re- 
port upon the instruction thereof in writing, 

;..... to the superintendent, filing a duplicate copy 
of each report with the principal of the re- 
spective high school. 

IV. Each head of department shall prepare 
as often as practicable, a suitable test for 
classes in his department, submitting a draft 
of such test to the superintendent. The heads 
of departments shall also file with the Su- 
perintendent the results of the test. 



Shall unify 
work of first 
four errades. 



Shall have 
meetings of 
teachers. 



Shall have 
supervision of 
work in their 
departments. 



Responsible to 
superintend- 
ent. 



Shall confer 
with princi- 
pals. 



Shall meet 
teachers. 



Shall visit 
classes and 
report upon 
instruction. 



Prepare tests. 



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Make suffgres- 
tions in 
writing-. 



Supervise 
work of 
janitors. 

Keep 

efficiency 

record. 

Inspect 
heating and 
ventilating 
apparatus. 

Report needed 
repairs. 



Duties 
required by 
compulsorj' 
law. 

Report to 
superintend- 
ent, 



Care for 

property, 

maintain 

cleanliness 

and supervise 

janitors. 

Supervise 
school during; 
recesses. 

Jointly 
responsible 
with janitor 
for safety and 
care of 
building-. 

Care for class 
of absent 
teacher. 



» v.. All important suggestions shall be re- 
auced'to writing; and issued in duplicate to 
each principal, one for his use and one for 
the use of the teacher. 

VI. Heads of departments shall perform 
such other services in connection with the 
work of their departments, as the superin- 
tendent of schools or the respective assistant 
superintendents may require. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF JANITORS. 

11. The superintendent of janitors, under the 
direction of the superintendent, shall supervise 
the work of all janitors, instruct them in their 
duties, and keep a written efficiency record on 
file in the office of the secretary of the Board of 
Education, reporting every year on forms pre- 
scribed by the board. He shall inspect the heat- 
ing and ventilating apparatus in each building; 
and after conference with the principals, report 
any needed repairs to the buildings or school 
equipment to the secretary of the Board of Edu- 
cation. 

ATTENDANCE OFFICERS. 

12. The attendance officer shall, under the direc- 
tion of the superintendent of schools and with 
the approval of the Committee on Playgrounds, 
perform such duties as are required by the com- 
pulsory attendance law, and by the rules of the 
Board of Education. 

The attendance officers shall report directly to 
the superintendent of schools. 

PRINCIPALS. 

13. Each principal and teacher shall see to the 
safe keeping of all school property under his care. 
He shall see that cleanliness is maintained in the 
school building and to this end shall make fre- 
quent inspections. Careful supervision of janitors 
by principals is expected. 

14. The building principal shall supervise the 
school during recesses, appointing such teachers 
to assist as he deems expedient. The principal 
and janitor of each building are jointly and sever- 
ally responsible for the care and safety of the 
building. 

15. It shall be the duty of the principal of each 
building promptly to place the class of an absent 
teacher under a monitor, and in case of a graded 
school to notify the supervising principal by tele- 
phone or otherwise and to see that all rules rela- 



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Enforce rules. 

Principal has 
authority 
within his 
building-. 



Report 
damag-e. 



Janitor may 
report in 
emerg-encies. 

Bi-weekly fire 
drills. 

No drills on 

inclement 

days. 

Who shall 
have keys. 



tive to pupils, teachers and to janitors are en- 
forced. 

The principal of a building has authority oyer 
all teachers, pupils and janitors and their assist- 
ants in that building. 

i6. Each principal of a graded school shall 
promptly report in writing to his supervising 
principal whenever he becomes aware of any dam- 
age to school property, or of any repairs needed 
or any other matter which should be brought to 
the attention of the higher school authorities. 
The principals of normal, high and manual train- 
ing schools shall make such report to the secre- 
tary of the Board of Education. 

,In emergencies when the school is not in ses- 
sion, such reports may be made by the janitor, di- 
rect to the secretary of the Board of Education. 

17. Bi-weekly fire drills shall take place in all 
school buildings from September to November 
inclusive, of each year, and monthly thereafter. 

Such drills should not be given on inclement 
days. 

18. No one shall be permitted to have a key to 
a school building except the principal of the build- 
ing, the supervising principal, the superintendent 
of janitors and the janitor, including the janitor's 
assistant, by special permission of the supervising 
principal. 

The issue of keys to the Franklin Building shall 
be determined by the secretary of the Board of 
Education. Keys of all schoolrooms shall be kept 
in a key board under the control of the principal 
and the janitor. 

APPOINTMENTS OF OFFICERS AND 
TEACHERS. 

19. No person shall be appointed as teacher, 
head of department, principal or supervising prin- 
cipal in the graded schools, high schools, manual 
training schools or normal schools, and no direc- 
tor, assistant director or teacher of special studies 
shall be appointed until the following requirements 
are complied with: 

(a) No person shall be appointed teacher 
of any elementary class who is not a graduate 
of a Washington normal school or other ap- 
proved normal school, or who shall not have candidates 
received from the board of examiners the examined. 
certificate required for the grade of the school 
to which appointed, and no such certificate Exceptions. 
shall be issued to any candidate who shall not 
have reached the "passing mark" of at least 



Care of keys. 



Passing- mark. 



Colleere degree 
required. 



Assififnmeut 
of normal 
graduates. 



Appointments 
to conform 
to law. 



Appointment 
for one year. 



Continued 
during- g-ood 
behavior. 

Employees 
may be 
assigned, 
transferred 
or dismissed. 



Shall hold 
examinations. 



Issue all 
circulars and 
teachers' 
licenses. 



70 per cent, in his competitive examination: 
Provided, however, that in case a vacancy ex- 
ists for which a qualified teach^ cannot be 
obtained under this rule, such vacancy may be 
otherwise filled for a period not to exceed one 
month, until a properly qualified teacher is 
available, and no longer. 

(b) No person without a degree from an 
accredited college, or a graduation certificate 
from an accredited normal school, such nor- 
mal school graduate to have had at least five 
years' of experience as a teacher in a high 
school, shall hereafter be appointed to teach 
any academic or scientific subjects in the nor- 
mal, high or manual training schools: Pro- 
vided, that no such teacher in the normal, 
high and manual training schools, or teacher 
of special studies shall be appointed until he 
shall have passed an examination prescribed 
by the boards of examiners hereinafter pro- 
vided for. 
Graduates of the Washington normal schools 
shall be assigned to duty as teachers in the or- 
der of their standing and excellence as shown by 
the certificates of the principals of the respective 
schools. 

Said appointments herein referred to must be 
made in conformity with the provisions of the Act 
of Congress, approved June 20, 1906. 

20. All appointments of officers, teachers and 
employees hereafter made shall in the first in- 
stance be for a period not to exceed one year, at 
the expiration of which time, if satisfactory, they 
may be continued during good behavior unless 
otherwise ordered by the Board of Education. 
Any officer, teacher or employee may at any time' 
be assigned or transferred by the Board of Edu- 
cation to any school, group or grade, or may be 
dismissed at any time by the board upon the writ- 
ten recommend? tion of the superintendent in man- 
ner as provided in Act approved June 20, 1906. 

EXAMINATIONS FOR TEACHERS' PO- 
SITIONS. 

21. The respective boards of examiners _ shall 
prescribe and hold such examinations of applicants 
for positions as teachers, principals and officers as 
may be necessary to carry out the requirements of 
the law and the rules of the Board of Education. 
They shall originate and issue all such circulars 
of information and other printed or written mat- 
ter concerning examinations as may be deemed 



necessary and shall issue teachers' licenses in 
manner and form to be prescribed by the Board of 
Education. Copies of all circulars and other print- 
ed matter issued by them shall be duly filed for 
record. 

They shall keep a permanent record of the 
standing of each candidate in each subject, includ- 
ing the oral examination. This record shall be 
open to inspection by the members of the Board 
of Education. 

They shall report to the Board of Education 
through the superintendent of schools, at the 
meeting next following the completion of any ex- 
amination, the names of the successful candidates 
arranged in order of rank, with a statement show- 
ing the total mark of each candidate. 

The names of such persons shall constitute an 
eligible list from which appointments shall be 
made in the order of their rank as vacancies oc- 
cur in the position for which the candidates have 
respectively qualified. Any name placed upon the 
eligible list shall remain thereon without further 
examination for the period of two years. The 
board of examiners shall transcribe the names 
of persons on the eligible list into a book which 
shall be open to inspection by the members of 
the Board of Education. 

They shall also furnish to any candidate who 
may make application in writing, his marks in 
each of the subjects in which he was examined, 
including the oral examination. 

The board of examiners shall have control 
over and jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to 
all of the examinations herein provided. 

22. Each teacher is required to be in the school 
building at least fifteen minutes before the time 
for the opening of school, and at the time to 
record in the principal's office the hour of arrival. 
The principal of the building shall report monthly 
in writing to the supervising principal, and in 
the case of the normal, high and manual train- 
ing schools, to the assistant superintendent, a 
record of all his teachers, including special teach- 
ers, for absence and tardiness. Buildings shall be 
open for the admission of pupils fifteen minutes 
before the time for the opening of school. 

23. A teacher must not be absent from school at 
any time during the school year, except in case 
of sickness, the presence of contagious disease in 
the home, or other pressing emergency, notice of 
which shall be forthwith communicated to the 
next higher authority. The superintendent may 
give a written permission to a teacher to be ab- 

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Shall keep 
permanent 
record. 



Shall report 
results. 



Eligible list. 



Furnish 
marks to 
candidate on 
application- 



Teacher must 
be in building- 
15 minutes 
before open Ingr 
school. 

Principal 
reports 
absence and 
tardiness of 
teachers. 

Buildings 
open 15 
minutes before 
school. 

Absence of 
teacher. 



Two school 
daj's allowed 
to visit 
schools. 



Teacher must 
report 

observations 
in writing-. 



Shall attend 
meetingrs. 



Absence to 
be reported 
in writing-. 



Shall keep 
record. 



Temperatures 
of school 
room recorded. 



sent for the purpose of visiting other schools, not 
exceeding two school days in any one year, with- 
out deduction of compensation. This time may 
be extended at the discretion of the superinten- 
dent, provided the visiting teacher pays a substi- 
tute for the time he is absent, over two days. 
Teachers shall report such visits in writing to the 
supervising principal, to the principal of the 
normal school, high or manual training school, 
or director as the case may be, who will forward 
the same to the Superintendent. 

24. Each teacher shall attend all meetings to 
which he is called by his superior officers. In 
case of failure to do so, the absenting teacher 
shall furnish to the official who called the meet- 
ing, a statement, in writing, of the reason for such 
absence. When possible, the notice of the pro- 
posed absence shall be prior to the meeting. 

25. Each teacher shall keep a record book of at- 
tendance, complete the entries in it each day be- 
fore leaving the schoolroom, and make such re- 
ports as may be required.^ Each teacher shall 
keep a record of the proficiency of the pupils in 
studies, making such entries as may be necessary. 
Immediately after the annual closing of the 
schools he shall deposit his record book in the 
office of his supervising principal, taking care to 
make and to retain a list of the names of all pu- 
pils on the rolls at the close of the school year. 

26. Each teacher shall be especially careful as 
to the ventilation and temperature of his school- 
room, shall see that the windows are opened for 
the free admission of air at recesses, and shall 
be careful that the temperature of the room when 
occupied by pupils shall not fall below 64 nor 
rise above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The teacher 
shall keep a record of the temperature of the 
schoolroom and place the same on the blackboard 
at 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock A. M., and at 2 o'clock 
P. M., of each school day, and the principal of 
the building may dismiss a class whenever the 
temperature has remained below 64 degrees until 
ten o'clock in the morning. The report of such 
dismissal shall be sent immediately, in writing, to 
the supervising principal, or in the case of a 
normal, high or manual training school, to the 
assistant superintendent, who shall promptly in- 
vestigate the cause of such failure of the heating 
system. After the dismissal of a class for this 
cause, the teacher may be assigned to other du- 
ties as the supervising principal or the assistant 
superintendent may see fit. 



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27. A teacher shall not give private or extra Shall not give 
instruction to any pupil or pupils of the public f^stmctioa. 
schools for money or anything of value other 

than his regular official compensation without the 
written request of the superintendent first had 
and obtained, vv^hich consent shall not be given 
except upon the written request of the parent or 
guardian. Such instruction shall not be given 
during school hours. Permission shall not be 
given to teachers to give private instruction for 
money or gain to pupils in their own classes. 
The foregoing prohibition shall not apply during 
vacation. 

28. When a pupil has been absent from school 

four consecutive half days in any month, the Parent must 
teacher must at once notify the parent or guardian p^pj^fg^®^ °^ 
of the pupil's absence. _ absence, 

29. The opening exercises shall include reading 

by the teacher, without note or comment, of a Bible reading- 
portion of the Bible, repeating the Lord's Prayer, and Lord's 
and appropriate singing by the pupils. Prayer. 

30. The avoidance of corporal punishment, as 
far as may be with a due regard to obedience on 

the part of pupils, is enjoined on all teachers, corporal 
Each case of corporal punishment with the reason punishment 
therefor, shall be reported promptly by the teacher to be avoided, 
in charge of the school and forwarded, through 
the principal and supervising principal, to the 
superintendent. 

31. Each teacher having in her room a set of 
adjustable seats and desks, shall at the beginning 

of each half year, measure the pupils with the Furnitnre to 
measuring rod provided with each set of furniture be adjusted 
and see to it that the seat and desk are adjusted pupils, 
to fit the child at all times. 

32. No pupils shall be sent on errands outside . 

of school buildings, except by the supervising or se'nt^oV^* * 
building principals and then only on urgent school errands, 
business. 

33. No teacher or other person shall be allowed 
to present in the public schools, any prize, prem- 

ium or gift to any pupil, except such as are per- or teachers^* ^ 

mitted by order of the Board of Education, nor forbidden. 

shall any educational employee receive any gift 

from any pupil or pupils or their parents, or one 

purchased by the contribution of the pupils as 

such. 

34. Subscriptions for papers, books, publications 

and other articles and canvass for the sale of soiicitia 
any article within a school building shall not be subscripfions.' 
permitted at any time, except that agents for 
regular school textbooks and periodicals may visit 
the offices of normal, high and manual training 

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Concerts, 
entertain- 
ments, etc., 
only by 
permission 
of the board. 



Home work. 



Deficient 
pupils may 
make up work. 



Employees 
shall not 
engragre in 
other business. 



schools and supervising principals. Pupils when 
authorized by their principals, may solicit sub- 
scriptions for their own school periodicals and 
for their athletic association. 

No other subscriptions or contributions by pu- 
pils shall be permitted except by consent of the 
Board of Education. 

35. The pupils of the schools shall not as or- 
ganized bodies be permitted to engage in anj^ con- 
cert or public entertainment without permission 
of the Board of Education. 

No pupil may be solicited in any manner for 
subscriptions or contributions for any purpose ex- 
cept for regularly organized or authorized public 
literary and athletic clubs, without the permission 
of the Board of Education. 

Application to pupils of the public schools or 
to their parents through them, through the is- 
suance of circulars, tickets, and subscription lists, 
or in any other manner, for contributions or 
other aid toward any purpose whatever, is pro- 
hibited. The giving of concerts, fairs, lunches, 
or other entertainments for money in any school 
building is prohibited, except by permission of 
the Board of Education. No mail shall be de- 
livered to pupils at school buildings, except in 
connection with authorized publications and ath- 
letics. 

36. Assignment of lessons for home study may 
be made as follows: 

3rd grade, 15 minutes daily. 

4th grade, 30 minutes daily. 

5th grade, 45 minutes daily. 

6th grade, 60 minutes daily. 

7th grade, 75 minutes daily. 

8th grade, 90 minutes daily. 
Teachers must not assign home work which 
will require more time of an average pupil than 
is above stated. All assignments of home work 
must be definite and of such character that the 
pupil can do the work without assistance. Neither 
arithmetic, penmanship nor map drawing shall be 
assigned for study at home. 

37. In grades seven arid higher, pupils who are 
deficient in half a year's work may, at the option 
of their class teachers and supervising principal, 
for good cause, be allowed to take an examina- 
tion to make up back work, half yearly. 

38. No employee of the Board of Education 
shall perform services for pecuniary or other con- 
siderations, except during vacations, in any busi- 
ness, trade or occupation, without having first ob- 
tained the written consent of the superintendent. 

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39- Teachers shall be rated annually by their 
respective supervising principals, normal, high 
or manual training school principals, or directors 
in case of special teachers, subject to the approval 
of the superintendent of schools, who shall have 
power to revise ratings, as a result of personal 
investigation, 

SALARIES. 

40. The salaries of officers, clerks, ^ engineers 
and janitors, except as hereinafter provided, shall 
be paid in twelve monthly installments. 

The salaries of all teachers and clerks and li- 
brarians m the high and manual training schools, 
duly elected, whose services commence with 
the opening day of school and who shall per- 
form their duties, shall begin on the first day of 
September and shall be paid in ten monthly in- 
stallments, the first payment to be made on the 
first day of October, or as near that date as prac- 
ticable, and the payment for the month of June 
to be made upon the completion of the school 
term in June. The salaries of other teachers 
shall begin when they enter upon their duties. 

Each and every month shall be held to consist 
of thirty days, without regard to the actual num- 
ber of days in any calendar month, thus exclud- 
ing the thirty-first of any calendar month from 
the computation and treating February as if it 
actually had thirty days. Any person entering the 
service of the schools during a thirty-one day 
jnonth and serving until the end thereof shall be 
entitled to pay for that month from the date of 
entry to the thirtieth day of said month, both 
days inclusive; and any person entering said 
service during the month of February and serv- 
ing until the end thereof shall be entitled to one 
month's pay, less as many thirtieths thereof as 
there were days elapsed prior to date of entry : 
Provided, that for one day's unauthorized absence 
on the thirty-first day of any calendar month, one 
day's pay shall be forfeited. 

SUBSTITUTES. 

41. In case of the temporary absence of any 
teacher, the supervising principal, or the principal 
of a normal, high or manual training school; 
should the absence occur in either of these 
schools, or, the director of special studies in the 
case of the absence of teachers under his immedi- 
ate supervision, shall promptly provide a substi- 
tute, who shall be selected from an eligible list 
to be recommended by the" superintendent of pub- 



Annual 
ratiner of 
teachers. 



Teachers paid 
in ten 
installments. 



Salaries begin 
Septl. 



Thirty days 
in each month. 



Substitutes 
to be selected 
from eligible 
list. 



lie schools and approved by the Board of Edu- 
cation. In the absence of such list, the most avail- 
able person shall be selected. 

The employment of every substitute teacher 
shall be subject to the conditions prescribed in 
Rule 42 respecting temporary absence. 

42. (a) An employee on the ten installment 
roll, shall pay the substitute either in the pres- 
ence of his supervising officer, or by check through 
the supervising officer, at the following rates : 

Where the absence is not more than thirty con- 
secutive school days in any one year, the rate for 
each day of actual substitute service shall be one- 
fiftieth of a month's salary, as follows : 



_ , $2,500 - $5.00 

Rate of pay 2,400 4,80 

for 2,300 4.60 

substitutes. 2,200 4.40 

2,100.. 4.20 

2,050 ... 4.10 

2,000 . 4.(.X) 

1,950 . 3.90 

1,9(»0 . . 3.80 

1,850 3.70 

1.800 . -. . 3.60 

1,750 . 3.50 

1.700 3.40 

1,650. . 3.30 

1,600 .. 3.20 

1,550 : 3.10 

1.500 3.00 

1,450 2.90 

1,400 2.80 

1,350 2.70 

1,310 2.62 

1,300 2.60 

1.270... 2.54 

1,230 2.46 

1.200 2.40 

1,190 2.38 

1,150 2.30 

1,110 .. 2.22 

1,100 2.20 



$1,070 J2.14 

1,040 2.08 

1,030 2.06 

1.010 2.02 

1,000 2.00 

990 1.98 

•^80.: 1.% 

950 1.90 

920 L84 

900 1.8a 

890 i.lS 

875 1.75 

860 1.72 

850... 1.70 

830 1.66 

825 1.65 

800 1.60 

775 1.55 

750 1.50 

725 1.45 

700 1.40 

675 1.35 

650 1.30 

625 1.25 

000 1.20 

575 1-15 

550 . . l.lO 

525.. .- 1.05 

500 1.00 



Teacher 
dropped from 
rolls after 60 
days absence. 



Where the temporary absence of any teacher 
exceeds thirty consecutive school days in any 
year the entire salary of the teacher so tempo- 
rarily absent for every school day for which sub- 
stitute service is rendered shall be paid by him, 
either in the presence of his supervising officer, 
or by check through the supervising officer, to 
the substitute; Provided, That should the absence 
extend over a period of sixty consecutive school 
days the name of the teacher so temporarily ab- 
sent shall be automatically dropped from the rolls 
and the superintendent of schools shall appoint 
a teacher to the position, subject to the approval, 
ratification and confirmation of the Board of 
Education, temporarily and until the regular 
teacher is in u condition to resume his work, at 

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which time the appointment of the temporary 
teacher shall automatically end, and the name of restored to 
the regular teacher be restored to the rolls, with- rolls on 
out loss of longevity pay in accordance with the recovery, 
provisions of the Act approved June 20, 1906, un- 
less otherwise ordered by the Board of Educa- 
tion: Provided, further, that any person so ap- 
pointed as temporary teacher shall be duly quali- 
fied as approved in the Act entitled "An Act to 
Fix and Regulate the Salaries of Teachers, School 
Officers and Other Employees of the Board of 
Education of the District of Columbia," approved 
June 20th, 1906. 

In case of the absence of the principal of any p^ ^ 
graded school, the supervising principal shall sifbstittttes for 
designate one of the teachers in the building as principals, 
acting principal and the principal shall pay to 
the said acting principal one-half of the allow- 
ance for session rooms as provided in the Act 
entitled "An Act to Fix and Regulate the Salaries 
of Teachers, School Officers and Other Employees 
of the Board of Education of the District of 
Columbia," appioved June 20, 1906, during the 
period of the principal's absence. 

The supervising olhcers shall, on the last day 
of each school month, on forms to be furnished, 
report all absences to the secretary of the Boaiid 
of Education. 

(b) in case of the death of a teacher during ab- i^ case of 
sence and while a substitute is employed in ac- death of 
cordance with the provisions of the rule, the teacher, 
amount due the said substitute shall be paid to 
said substitute by the estate of the deceased 
teacher, and before the pay roll for the amount 
due the estate for the services of the teacher is 
certified to the Auditor for the District of Colum- 
bia, the estate shall present a receipt from the 
said substitute for the sum paid her for her 
services as such substitute. 

LEAVES OF ABSENCE. 

43. (o) The annual leaves of employees who 
are paid in twelve instalments shall be arranged 
as follows : ^avet a?r^ 

Of the superintendent of public schools and g^^nted.^ 
the secretary of the board, by the Board of 
Education. 

Of the assistant superintendents, director of 
intermediate instruction, supervisor of manual 
training, supervising principals, attendance offi- 
cers, superintendent of janitors, custodian and 
assistant custodian of free textbooks and sup- 
plies, and all librarians and clerks other than 



special leaves 
firranted by 
Sttpt. or 
board,. 



Onreturti 
from leave 
teacher takes 
first vacancy. 



Work must be 
completed 
before leave 
is crranted. 



Employees 
shall report 
for duty when 
required. 



those in the office of the secretary of the board, 
by the supermtendent of schools. 

Of clerks in the office of the secretary of the 
Board of Education, by the secretary of the board. 

Of the janitors, by the superintendent of jani- 
tors. 

All are subject to the approval of the president 
of the Board of Education, unless otherwise sped" 
iied. 

Applications for leave shall be made in writ- 
ing to the proper officer, and after approval, shall 
be filed in the office of the secretary of the board. 

(b) Except as hereinotherwise provided, leaves 
of absence may be granted to officers and teach- 
ers by the Board of Education or the superinten- 
dent of schools, in writing, on account of illness 
or for educational advantages. When granted by 
the superintendent of schools, such leaves of ab- 
sence shall be reported by him at the next meet- 
ing of the Board of Education: Provided, That 
unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Edu- 
cation, a teacher at the expiration of his leave of 
absence shall be appointed to the first vacancy in 
any grade for which he may be qualified; but no 
leave of absence shall be granted to a teacher who 
seeks such leave to engage in another occupation 
for pay or for other than purely educational 
profit: Provided, further, That sliould the leave 
of absence extend to the end of the school year 
during which it was granted, the teacher, when 
reinstated, if to the same class held before taking 
leave of absence, shall be entitled to the longevity 
pay provided for in the Act approved June 20, 
1906, as if he had been in the service of the 
schools during the preceding year, unless other- 
wise ordered by the Board of Education. 

No leave of absence shall be allowed to any em- 
ployee of the Board of Education until he has 
furnished all reports, requisitions and other in- 
formation that may be required by these rules, 
by a superior officer or by the Board of Educa- 
tion and has satisfactorily performed such duties 
as in the judgment of the board or the superin- 
tendent, as the case may be, are necessary to the 
proper conduct of the schools. 

All officers, teachers and other employees shall 
report for duty at such time prior to the open- 
ing day of the schools in September, as may be 
required by the president of the board or the 
superintendent of schools. 



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JANITORS. 

44. All appointments of janitors and caretakers 

shall be made by the Board of Education upon 4?omm?ndS 

the written recommendation of the Committee on tionofcom- 

Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors and Sanitation, mittee. 

All janitors and caretakers shall be appointed on probation 

on probation for a period not exceeding six for six 

months. months. 

Substitutes may be employed by the janitors 
and caretakers with consent of the superinten- substitute 
dent of janitors for not exceeding ten consecutive janitors, 
days. 

45. Each janitor shall be subject to the orders p^^clpais 
of the principal of his building. He shall be re- 
sponsible for all damage done through his neglect Duties, 
or carelessness. He shall make and regulate the 

fires; notify the principal in season when fuel is 
needed, take proper care of the heating appa- 
ratus; sweep, dust and wash the rooms, halls and 
windows; keep the water closets and outhouses 
clean and in good order at all times; keep the 
playgrounds and grass plots in a cleanly con- 
dition; guard the building, furniture, fences and 
grounds ; see that the window blinds, doors and 
gates are securely fastened when the school is 
not in session; receipt for all materials delivered 
and keep a faithful record of same. He shall 
promptly make such reoairs as he is able to Repairs to be 
make and report to the principal all other repairs made, 
needed, and do such other work as properly be- 
longs to the janitor, such as washing ink wells, 
cleaning blackboards and erasers, providing water 
for the use of the teachers and pupils, as- 
sist in maintaining order and going on official 
errands for the principal when the heating appa- 
ratus is not in use. The janitor of a steam or shaiinotbe 
furnace heated building shall not be absent under absent when 
any circumstances during school hours when the beating 
heating apparatus is in use. fn Ste.^*"*^ '^ 

In the case of the temporary absence of any 
janitor or caretaker for any cause, except in the 
perfbrmance of his official duties, the entire daily 
salary of each janitor or caretaker so temporarily Eutiresaiarr 
absenting himself shall be paid by him in the Juistkate r- 
presence of his supervising officer to the substi- 
tute, selected to perform the duties of the said 
absent janitor or caretaker for such time as he 
may be required to perform such service: Pro- 
vided, That should the absence extend over a 
period of thirty consecutive days 1- any year the 
name of the janitor or caretaker so temporarily 
absent shall be automatically dropped from the 

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Dropped from 
rolls after 30 
days absence. 



Restored to 
rolls on 
recovery from 
illness. 



Two years' 
course. 



Required to 
sigrn pledge of 
service as 
teacher for 
two years. 



Educational 
qualifications. 



Diploma 
equivalent to 
lowest 
teacher's 
certificate. 



Appointed in 
order of rank. 



rolls and the superintendent of public schools 
shall appoint a janitor or caretaker to the po- 
sition, subject to the approval, ratification and 
confirmation of the Board of Education, tempo- 
rarily and until the regular janitor or caretaker 
is in a condition to resume his work, at which 
time the appointment of the temporary janitor or 
caretaker will automatically end and the name 
of the regular janitor or caretaker be restored to 
the rolls, unless otherwise ordered by the Board 
of Education: Provided, further, That all ab- 
sences of any janitor or caretaker shall be re- 
ported on the last day of each school month, on 
forms to be furnished to the secretary of the 
Board of Education by the supervising officers. 

NORMAL SCHOOLS. 

46. The course of study in the Washington 
normal schools shall be mainly professional and 
shall extend over a period of not less than two 
years. 

47. Each candidate before being admitted to the 
school shall be required to sign the following 
pledge : 

"I, the subscriber, desire to enter the nor- 
mal school for the purpose of preparing my- 
self for teaching, and I declare it to be my 
intention to continue in said school until I 
have completed the prescribed course of study 
and then to devote myself to the work of 
teaching in the public schools for the term 
of two years." 

48. No person shall be eligible for examination 
for admission to either of the normal schools who 
has not completed the full four years' course of 
study in the Washington high schools, in a high 
school of equal grade therewith, or the full equiva- 
lent thereof, to be determined by examination by 
the superintendent. 

49. Each graduate of a Washington normal 
school shall be awarded, by the Board of Edu- 
cation, upon the written recommendation of the 
principal of the school, approved by the superin- 
tendent, a diploma which shall be equivalent to 
the lowest teacher's certificate in the District of 
Columbia. Appointments as teachers shall be 
made in order of rank, from an eligible list, made 
by the faculties of the respective normal schools 
with the approval of the superintendent. Credits 
may be give i for successful experience after 
graduation. Successful experience as substitute 
mav be counted. 



PUPILS. 

50. Separate schools for white children and for 
colored children shall be provided. Separate 

51. So far as practicable, not more than forty schools, 
pupils shall be assigned to one teacher. 

ADMISSIONS. 

52. All children above the age of six years, who are 
whose parents are residents of the District of entitled to 
Columbia, or are engaged in business or public admission, 
duties in said District, or who own property in 

and pay taxes levied by the Government of the 
District of Columbia, are entitled to admission 
into the schools, within the division in which they 
reside, for which, on examination, they may be 
found qualified ; and all non-resident pupils whose 
parents are not engaged in business or public du- 
ties in said District, or who do not own prop- 
erty in and pay taxes levied by the Government 
of the District of Columbia, may be admitted to 
such school buildings as may be determined by 
the school authorities, and taught in said public 
schools on payment of such amount as will cover Tuition 
the expense of their tuition and cost of textbooks chargres. 
and supplies necessaiy for their use, said amount 
to be fixed by the Board of Education, with the ap- 
proval of the Commissioners of said District, and 
all payments thereunder shall be made to the Col- 
lector of Taxes for the District of Columbia, not 
later than the tenth day of each school month, and 
a failure to make full payment of the tuition fee, 
in advance, within said ten days, excepting Sun- 
days and legal holidays, shall constitute sufficient 
cause for the immediate dismissal of the pupil; 
unless, within said ten days, the parent or law- 
ful guardian shall file in the office of the Board 
of Education, a statement with an attached affi- 
davit proving his claim to the exemption from 
tuition charges ; and provided further that the en- 
tire amount due for one school year may be paid 
in at one time, if the parent or guardian so de- 
sires. 

Every parent, guardian or other person resid- Children 
ing in the District of Columbia, having charge ]>etween 8 and 
and control of a child between the ages of eight att?nX 
and fourteen years shall cause such child to be 
regularly instructed in the elementary branches 
of knowledge, including reading, writing, English 
grammar, geography, and arithmetic, and pur- 
suant to this end every such parent, guardian 
or other person aforesaid shall cause any child 
under the charge and control of such person, to 

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attend some public, private or parochial school 
during the period of each year the public schools 
in the District of Columbia are in session, on the 
customary days and during the customary hours 
of the school term: Provided, That no child 
shall be credited with attendance upon a private 
or parochial school unless the attendance officer 
receives a certificate of attendance signed by the 
person in charge of such school: Provided, fur- 
ther, That a child between the ages aforesaid 
may be excused from school attendance or in- 
struction upon presentation of satisfactory evi- 
dence to the superintendent of schools that such 
child is being or has been within said year in- 
structed a like period of time in the branches 
taught in the public schools, or that such child has 
acquired these branches of learning, or that the 
physical or mental condition of such child is such 
as to render such attendance or instruction in- 
expedient or impracticable. 
Vaccination No pupil shall be admitted to any school or 

class who has not been duly vaccinated or other- 
wise protected against smallpox, nor shall any 
child be admitted while suffering from, or who 
,, is liable to spread any contagious disease. A cer- 
tificate from the Health Officer of the District 
of Columbia, issued to the principal of the school 
building, may in any case be required of the 
parents or guardians of the pupil, certifying that 
such pupil has been successfully vaccinated or is 
otherwise protected from smallpox or any other 
contagious disease; provided, that after vaccin- 
ation in the regular method approved by the 
Health Officer the pupil may attend school for 
ten days, and upon the expiration of said ten days 
such pupil shall furnish a certificate from a 
physician or the Health Officer that said vac- 
cination has been successful or that the pupil has 
been revaccinated. In case of such revaccination 
the pupil may again attend for a period of ten 
days thereafter, when the further certificate pro- 
vided for shall be presented; provided, further, 
that when the Health Officer shall be satisfied 
from successful vaccination or otherwise that a 
pupil is immune from smallpox or other con- 
tagious disease and shall so certify, the pupil may 
be admitted. 
Application 53. Application for admission shall be made to 

for: admission, ^^vz principals of the respective buildings, and in 
high schools, to the assistant superintendents. 

54. At the commencement of each school half 
year, the order of admission of pupils shall be 
as follows: 



Order of 
admission 



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(a) The pupils who were such at the close 
of the preceding half year: Provided, That 
they return on the first school day of each 
term. 

(b) Pupils transferred in due form from 
other school buildings who must first have 
been entered on the rolls of the other 
schools. 

(c) Applicants in the order of presenting 
themselves. 

PROMOTIONS. 

55. Promotions of pupils to higher grades shall 
be of two classes — regular and special. Promotions. 

Regular promitions shall be made at the close 
of each school half year; all other promotions 
shall be special. 

(a) In kindergarten and in primary grades 
all pupils on the school roll after April 30th 
and October 30th may be regularly promoted 
by the teacher, subject to the approval of the 
supervising principal in charge. 

Special promotions may be made by the 
teacher with the consent of his supervisor. 

(b) In the intermediate grades regular 
promotions shall include those pupils only 
who are on the school rolls at the close of 
the half year, and shall be made by the 
teacher, subject to the approval of the su- 
pervising principal in charge. In the 5th, 6th 
and 7th grades a pupil may be specially pro- 
moted by the supervising principal in charge, 
with the consent of the teacher, if satisfac- 
tory reasons are given for such action. No 
pupil in grades below the 8th shall be pro-' ^. 
moted, without the consent of the teacher, un- 
less he shall pass satisfactorily an examina- 
tion given him by his supervising principal. 
Pupils not regularly promoted from the 8th 
grade to the high school, shall be specially 
promoted thereto provided they meet satis- 
factory requirements governing the entrance 
of pupils from schools other than the Dis- 
trict of Columbia grade schools. 

(c) Promotions in a high, normal or man- 
ual training school shall be under the direc- 
tion and control of the principal thereof. 

(d) In case a pupil shows extraordinary ' 
ability, his promotion may be authorized by 
the superintendent of schools without regard 
to the above requirements. 

In all other cases promotions shall be made un- 
der the rules. 

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Withdrawals. 



Suspensions 



Dismissals. 



Transfers. 



Transfers 
from one 
division to 
another. 



Non-payment 
of tuition 
chargres. 



Ungraded 
schools. 



The reports of the attendance, conduct and 
scholarship of the pupils of the public schools 
shall be prepared by the teachers upon forms 
furnished by the superintendent of schools. 
These reports shall be issued six times in the 
year, and shall be returned to the schools with 
the signature of a parent or guardian. 

HOW MEMBERSHIP OF PUPILS MAY 
TERMINATE. 

56. .(a) A pupil may be withdrawn from school 
on notice from a parent or guardian, the notice 
being given to the principal of the building. 

(t) A pupil may be suspended, subject to the 
provisions of the Compulsory Education Act, by 
the principal of a normal school, high school 
or manual training school, or in case of a graded 
school, by the order of a supervising principal on 
the recommendation of a building principal and 
teacher. Such suspension shall be immediately re- 
ported in writing to the superintendent of schools. 

(c) A pupil may be dismissed by the superin- 
tendent of schools or by a vote of the Board of 
Education, Such dismissed pupil shall have the 
right of appeal to the Board of Education when 
dismissed by the superintendent.^ Each case of 
suspension or dismissal shall be immediately re- 
ported to the parent or guardian. 

(d) A pupil may be transferred by the super- 
vising principal within a division, and between 
divisions by agreement of the two supervising 
principals, whose divisions are involved, but in 
thr case of a change of residence, transfer shall 
be made without the consent of either officers or 
principals. Transfers of pupils between high 
schools shall be made under the direction of the 
assistant superintendents. 

No pupil shall be transferred from one graded 
school to another without a transfer ticket is- 
sued by the supervising principal on a recom- 
mendation of the building principal and teacher. 

(^) A non-resident pupil subject to tuition 
charges, may on ten days' notice, be suspended 
from school upon the failure of his parent or 
guardian to pay tuition charges, when so certified 
by the secretary of the board to the superinten- 
dent of schools. 

(f) A pupil who is an habitual truant, who is 
willfully and habitually absent from school, or 
who cannot be controlled by the regular school 
discipline while in attendance upon school, shall 
be committed to a special or ungraded school for 



instruction, and such pupil shall be restricted to 
such school for instruction until satisfactory evi- 
dence of improvement is furnished by the teacher 
in charge, whereupon such pupil may be restored 
to a graded school in the district in which he 
resides. 

The following offenses, severally, furnish suffi- causes for 
cient cause for the transfer of pupils to ungraded suspension or 
classes or for suspension or dismissal in cases to dismissal. 
which the Compulsory Education Law does not 
apply : 

Immoral conduct, indecent language, violent 
or pointed opposition to authority, persistent 
disobedience or disorder, habitual tardiness, 
unauthorized absence, and uncleanly condition 
of person or clothing. 

ABSENCE. 

57. Unauthorized absence is that for which the 
excuse of personal sickness, or contagious disease 
in the home cannot be given, or when there is Unauthorized 
no written authority for absence emanating from absence, 
the superintendent of schools: Provided, That 
such notification from the superintendent must 
reach the teacher before the expiration of the 
third session day or the sixth half session day: 
Provided, further. That in any case of unau- 
thorized absence for three day sessions or six 
half-day sessions, within any period of five 
months, a written notice shall immediately be 
sent to the attendance officer by the teacher in 
charge of the school or class, and that such at- 
tendance officer shall send a written notice to the 
parent, guardian or other person having charge 
of said child informing him that the attendance 
of the child is required at school within a period 
of three days : Provided, further, That if the 
said child is not excused as provided for in Sec- 
tion I of the Compulsory Law, approved June 
8th, 1906, prosecution shall be begun against the 
parent, guardian or other person in control of the 
child as provided for in Section 2 of said Act. 

No pupil who has been absent or who appears Excuses for 
after the opening of school shall be admitted absence, 
without a satisfactory excuse from the parent or 
guardian for the absence,^ or tardiness, or with- 
out satisfactory explanation of the remissness. 
Sickness and imperative business are alone to be 
regarded as satisfactory causes of absence. No 
pupil shall be allowed to be absent from school 
during the regular session to take music, drawing, 

dancing, or other lessons, without the written per- 



Excused on 
holy days. 



Good order 

and 

cleanliness. 



Prohibited 
from injuring; 
school 
property. 

Shall not use 
tobacco or 
profane 
langruagre. 



Damaere must 
be repaired. 



No secret 
orgranizations. 



mission of the superintendent, and no pupil shall 
be allowed to depart before the appointed hour of 
leaving school, except in case of sickness or some 
other pressing emergency, and the teacher in 
every case shall be the judge of the sufificiency of 
the cause. The teacher may require excuses to 
be made in writing, and all notes of excuse shall 
be preserved until the close of the school year. 

58. At the request of a parent or guardian, 
teachers shall excuse a pupil from attendance at 
school on school days observed as holy days by 
th^ denomination to which the parent or guardian 
belongs. All absence from school on school days 
must be duly recorded in the record books and 
reported. 

CONDUCT OF PUPILS. 

59. Good order and propriety of deportment, and 
cleanliness in person and attire are expected from 
each pupil. The pupil is required to keep all 
books clean and sound to the standard of or- 
dinary wear, to arrange neatly tlie contents of 
his desk, to enter and leave the schoolroom in a 
respectful manner and without unnecessary noise, 
and to depart quickly from the neighborhood of 
the school immediately on being dismissed, ex- 
cept on permission of building principal. The 
jurisdiction of the teacher shall extend to the 
pupil in coming to and going from school. 

60. No pupil shall mark, cut, scratch, chalk, or 
otherwise disfigure or injure any portion of a 
school building or anything connected therewith. 
He shall not use tobacco in any form at or go- 
insr to or from school, use any profane language 
or indecent language, throw stones or other mis- 
siles, annoy or maltreat others, nor do anything 
that may disturb the school or its neighborhood. 
Any pupil materially injuring or destroying any 
school supply shall replace or pay for the same. 
Any damage done to a school building or any of 
its equipments must be repaired at the expense 
of the offender. The money received in fines for 
injuries to property shall be payable by the par- 
ent of the child to the Collector of Taxes of the 
District of Columbia. 

61. There shall be no organization of any so- 
ciety or association among pupils as such, except 
that musical, literary and athletic societies or 
clubs of open membership whose boards of gov- 
ernors shall be composed of equal members of 
teachers and pupils, and senior class organiza- 
tions in high schools, may be permitted on the 
written order of the superintendent of schools, 



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the same to be reported to the Board of Edu- 
cation. 

SCHOOIv YEAR AND SESSIONS. 

62. The school year shall commence on the first 
day of July of each year, and shall end on the 
last day of the following June. The schools shall 
be in session on all week days of the school year, 
except the following: 

Every Saturday. 

From the Thursday faUing between the 
i8th and 24th of June inclusive, until the Fri- 
day before the Monday falHng between the 
17th and 23rd of the following September, in- 
clusive. 
Thanksgiving Day and the day following. 
From the day before Christmas Day until 
New Year's Day, both inclusive, and when 
the second day of January is observed as New 
Year's Day, it shall be included; and when 
New Year's Day falls on Thursday, the fol- 
lowing Friday shall be included. 

Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, 
and when either or both fall on Thursday, 
the Friday following shall be included. 

From Good Friday until the Friday follow- 
ing, both inclusive. 
No other holidays shall be granted except by 
direction of the Board of Education. 

In emergencies, the schools may be closed by 
order of the president of the Board of Education. 
The grade schools shall be opened at 9 o'clock 
A. M., and shall be closed at 3 o'clock P. M. 
A recess of fifteen minutes shall be given at 10 :30 
o'clock A. M., one of seven minutes at 2 P. M., 
and one of sixty minutes at twelve M. On stormy 
days the noon recess may be dispensed with and 
the schools closed at i o'clock by permission of 
the supervising principal. 

In all half day grade schools the daily session 
shall be: For the first and second grades, not 
exceeding three and one half hours ; and a recess 
of fifteen minutes shall be given in the middle 
of each session. 

MILITARY AFFAIRS. 

63. The military affairs of the high and man- 
ual training schools shall be under the direction 
of the Committee on Military Affairs and Ath- 
letics of the Board of Education and shall be 
administered by the respective assistant superin- 
tendents. All regimental and staff appointments 
shall be made from a list of pupils who stand 



Length of 
school year. 



Not school 
days. 



President of 
board may 
close schools. 



School hoursi 



Hours for 
half -day 
schools. 



Ofl&cers how 
selected. 



Commissions. 



highest in scholarship and deportment, and whose 
military service in the cadet corps has covered 
at least three years. The number of candidates 
for regimental and staff appointments shall be 
limited to two for every company which the high 
and manual training schools, except the Business 
High School, shall have had at the close of the 
previous school term. These officers shall be se- 
lected for military fitness by a committee com- 
posed of the military instructor of high schools, 
and such experts in the army or militia of the 
District of Columbia as may be designated by the 
Military Committee of the Board of Education. 
Regimental and staff officers shall be chosen ir- 
respective of the company or battalion to which 
the candidates had been attached, except in case 
of appointment to majorities, which shall be made 
from the battalion which the major is to com- 
mand. All nominations for company commis- 
sions shall be severally made by the principals of 
the respective schools in which the companies are 
located and under regulations governing regi- 
mental and staff appointments, except as to length 
of service. In all cases the nominations shall be 
approved by the Committee on Military Affairs 
and reported to the Board of Education. 

The Committee on Military Affairs shall issue 
commissions to officers, which shall be signed by 
the president of the Board of Education, the 
chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, 
the superintendent, assistant superintendent, the 
principal of the school and the military instruc- 
tor. 

ATHLETICS. 

64. The president of the board shall appoint, 
to serve during its pleasure, a Committee of Ap- 
peal from the Board of Faculty Advisers in re- 
spect to all matters of athletics connected with 
the public schools, to be composed of persons not 
connected with the public schools and who are 
not graduates of the Washington high schools. 
The findings of the Board of Appeals shall be 
final. The Board of Faculty Advisers of School 
Athletics shall consist of one member of the 
prerorefni^s^^ faculty from each school, to be designated by 
the principal of the school. The Board of Fac- 
ulty Advisers shall prepare all rules for the con- 
trol of athletics in the schools, and report them 
from time to time, in writing, to the Military 
Committee of the Board of Education whose 
ratification of the rules shall be final, and shall 
be entered upon the records of the Board of Edu- 
cation. 

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Committee of 
Appeal. 



Faculty 



SUSPENSIONS AND DISMISSALS OF 
EMPLOYEES. 

65. The president of the Board of Education 
shall be authorized to suspend temporarily any 
employee of the schools, for cause, subject to re- 
port in writing to the Board of Education at its 
next regular or special meeting. Any person 
under suspension by order of the president of the 
Board of Education may appeal to the board at 
its regular or special meeting. The grounds of 
appeal shall be stated in writing prior to the 
meeting and filed with the secretary of the board. 

66. Any employee who shall be absent from 
duty without leave, may be suspended by the 
president of the board and dismissed by the 
board. The suspension from duty of any em- 
ployee shall also involve deduction of compensa- 
tion from the date of suspension, unless other- 
wise ordered by the board. 

ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD. 

67. The attorney for the board may be con- 
sulted, and shall render legal advice, or action, 
upon all matters relating to the administration of 
school affairs. 

The opinions of the attorney shall be kept on 
file in the office of the secretary of the board, in 
a book provided for the purpose, indexed with 
appropriate reference to the particular subject- 
matter considered. 

When charges have been originated or preferred 
against a teacher or other person in the employ 
of the schools, and a trial or investigation is to be 
had thereon, the papers and data in the case shall 
be referred to the attorney, and he be requested 
to prepare the complaint in due form for trial 
under Section 10 of the Act approved June 20, 
1906. 

TRIALS. 

68. These rules are adopted in explanation and 
furtherance of Section 10 of the Act of June 20, 
1906. 

**Being investigated," as mentioned in Section 
10, shall refer to an investigation made by the 
board, or a proper committee thereof, or by 
some officer or other person acting under the "au- 
thority of the board or such committee." 

The right of attendance of counsel and friend 
shall be construed to exist at the first stage of 
the investigation or trial at which the party in- 
volved is formally accused. • 

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Presideut of 
board may 
suspend 
employees. 



Appeal may 
be taken. 



Employee 
absent without 
leave may be 
suspended, 



Shall advise 
the board. 



Shall prepare 
complaint 
when charg-es 
are made. 



"Beingr 

investigated" 

defined. 



Right of 
attendance 
of counsel and 
friend, 



Procedure of 
trial. 



Notice to 

accused 

person. 



Time of trial. 
Witnesses. 



Reerular order 
of communi- 
cations. 



Procedure of trial shall be as follows : 

The charges preferred shall be put in writing, 
signed by the person making the complaint, and 
countersigned by the superintendent. Each charge 
shall be specifically set forth with due regard to 
the time, place and character thereof. 

To the complaint shall be appended an order 
signed by the president of the board directing 
the party accused to appear before the board for 
trial or investigation, at a meeting to take place 
not less than five days, exclusive of Sundays, af- 
ter the day of the service of copy of complaint on 
the person accused. 

Said complaint shall be filed with the secretary 
in a separate jacket properly titled. A copy of 
the said complaint shall be served personally on 
the person accused. 

The trial or investigation shall not take place 
earlier than five days, exclusive of Sundays, after 
the date of the service of the complaint, and no- 
tice to appear on the person accused. A person 
accused shall have the right to summon any per- 
son in the employ of the schools to attend the 
trial as a witness in his behalf by giving notice 
in writing to the secretary of the particular per- 
sons desired as such witnesses. 

The proceedings of the trial shall conform as 
nearly as possible to the legal practice and usage. 

ORDER OF TRANSMITTAL OF OFFICIAL 
COMMUNICATIONS. 

69. All official communications of whatever na- 
ture from teachers or other employees of the 
Board of Education, except such as are elsewhere 
in these rules otherwise provided for, shall be 
sent first to the person next higher in authority 
for his action; and all communications to the 
Board of Education from any of its employees, 
shall be transmitted in regular order to the su- 
perintendent of schools, who shall present the 
same to the board, with or without his approval. 

The order of transmittal shall be: 

In the graded schools, from the teacher or jani- 
tor to the principal, the supervising principal, 
the assistant superintendent, the superintendent, 
the Board of Education. 

In the normal, high and manual training 
schools, from the teacher or janitor, to the princi- 
pal, the assistant superintendent, the superin- 
tendent, the Board of Education. 

In the special departments, from the special 
teacher to the director, the assistant superinten- 

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dent, the superintendent, the Board of Education. 

In the office of the secretary of the board, from 
the clerk to the secretary and to the Board of 
Education. 

Clerks to principals and school officers, through 
their immediate superiors to the assistant superin- 
tendent, the superintendent, the Board of Educa- 
tion. 

Communications on business matters shall be 
sent through the regular channels to the secre- 
tary of the board. 

APPEALS. 

70. Appeals may be taken from the decision of 
any principal, supervising principal or director 
to the assistant superintendent, the superinten- 
dent and finally to the Board of Education in the 
order named. 

Appeals from the superintendent of janitors 
and attendance officers shall be to the superin- 
tendent of public schools and to the Board of 
Education. Appeals from all other employees 
shall follow the regular order of transmittal. 

Pending an appeal the decision stands. 

CONDUCT OF EMPLOYEES. 

71. The Board of Education will take no cog- 
nizance of complaint against an employee for non- 
payment of debts, so far as the creditor is con- 
cerned, beyond acknowledging the receipt of his 
communication. An employee whose services are 
otherwise satisfactory, and who contracts a debt 
on the strength of his official position, and then, 
without sufficient reason neglects or avoids pay- 
ment thereon, may be liable to dismissal. Com- 
plaints of this character will be considered in the 
teacher's official rating. 

72. The use of tobacco by any employee in or 
about a school building is prohibited. 

JZ-^ All officers, teachers and employees of thlT 
public schools in the District of Columbia are 
forbidden, either directly or indirectly, individually 
or through associations, of their own initiative 
to solicit an increase of pay, or to influence 
or attempt to influence, in their own interest, 
or for a personal end, any other educational 
legislation whatever, either before Congress or 
its committees, or in any way save through the 
Board of Education. This rule in no wise affects 
the right of any person in the service of the 
public schools of making any suggestions for the 
improvement of the public • school system or its 

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Business 

commtinica- 

tions. 



Order of 
appeals. 



Decision 
stands 
pendidgr 
appeal. 



Non-payment 
of debts. 



Use of tobacco 
prohibited. 



Soliciting 
leg-islation for 
personal ends 
prohibited. 



Ten days 
notice of 
resignation 
is required. 



Female 
teacher 
vacates 
position by 
marriage. 



Hours flag's 
shall fly. 



Naming of 

school 

buildings. 



Blank books 
and forms a 
part of the 
rules. 



Bonds 
required 



administration, but all such suggestions must be 
forwarded to the Board of Education for con- 
sideration. 

RESIGNATIONS. 

74. Every resignation of any teacher or em- 
ployee of the public schools of the District of 
Columbia must be submitted to the superinten- 
dent at least ten days before the same is intended 
to take effect. 

75. Should a female teacher marry, her place 
shall thereupon become vacant, provided, how- 
ever, that when the resignation does not take 
effect until after the last regular day in June, 
she shall be paid her full salary for the month of 
June. 

FLAGS. 

"jd. On all school days and legal holidays of the 
nation, and of the District of Columbia, and 
other days made holidays by proclamation of the 
President, flags shall fly at full staff from all 
school buildings from 8:30 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. 
On Memorial Day the flag shall be placed at half 
staff. 

BUILDINGS. 

'j'j. No school building shall hereafter be named 
in honor of any living person, and all propo- 
sitions to name buildings shall be referred to the 
Committee on Sites, Buildings, Repairs, Janitors 
and Sanitation for consideration and report. At 
least six (6) votes shall be required to name a 
school building : ^ Provided, ^ That the name of 
each school building which is or shall hereafter 
be designated by the name of any person shall 
embrace the given name or names as well as the 
surname of such person, and shall be so noted on 
the school records. 

78. School houses shall be used only for edu- 
cational purposes. 

79. All officers and employees of the board and 
all teachers shall use such record and other blank 
books and such forms as shall be prescribed by 
the board and in the manner and for the pur- 
poses designated, and the instructions accom- 
panying such books and forms are hereby made a 
part of the rules. In each schoolroom, a copy of 
the rules shall be kept by the teacher. 

SUPPLIES AND REQUISITIONS. 

80. The secretary of the Board of Education 
and the custodian of supplies shall be required to 



furnish bond in the sum of $2,500 and $2,000 re- 
spectively. 

The secretary of the Board of Education shall 
submit a report at the first monthly meeting, stat- 
ing the work of his office, with such recommenda- 
tions as are necessary. 

Supplies necessary for the use of the public Requisitions, 
schools may be procured by the supervising 
principals, principals of the normal, high and 
manual training schools and directors of special 
work, submitting itemized requisitions to the 
secretary of the board, who shall submit the same 
to the superintendent for approval. 

If the articles are not in stock, the secretary 
shall forward a list of the supplies required to the 
proper committee of the board to be examined 
and transmitted to the Committee on Ways and 
Means to be presented to the full board for ac- 
tion. When approved by the board, a requisition 
shall be certified by its president and secretary, 
and forwarded to the Commissioners of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. The supplies thus ordered will 
be delivered to the storekeeper or the official 
designated by him. 

Proper receipts shall be given for all goods de- 
livered and proper entries shall be made in the 
books of the storekeeper. 

If the requisition is an urgent one, the articles 
may be ordered on the approval of the requisition 
by the superintendent or acting superintendent, 
the president and the secretary of the Board of urgent 
Education. In such cases, the action taken must requisitions, 
be reported at the next meeting of the Board of 
Education. 

Samples of standard supplies shall be kept by Samples must 
the storekeeper. be kept. 

If the supplies are in stock, the secretary shall 
approve the requisition and forward it to the 
custodian of supplies who will furnish the sup- 
plies, taking receipt for same. 

All supplies delivered must be immediately 
checked up and the receipt, accompanied by the ^Jdiecke^r^* 
correction sheet, if necessary, returned to the and receipted 
secretary of the Board of Education within forty- for. 
eight hours of the receipt of goods, and all claims 
for shortages must be made within that time. 
«;^ 81. Requisitions shall be made quarterly except 
'^m emergencies. 

♦'' An^ annual inventory of all supplies and prop- Annual 
^erty in the public schools shall be required from inventories 
each teacher or person in possession of property, P^^^^.^ 
the correctness of which shall be certified by the '^^^'^«'^^- 
immediate building principal, supervising princi- 

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Semi-anaual 
inventory by 
custodian. 



Supplies for 

liigrh 

manual 

training* 

and normal 

school. 



Secretary 
shall 
apportion 
funds. 



Board shall 
apportion free 
text book 
fund 



Purchases of 
books 

recommended 
by superin- 
tendent. 

Superintend- 
ent shall 
recommend 
text books 
annually. 



Principal 
shall make 
inventories 
of property 
annually. 



pal, normal, high or manual training school 
principal, or other officers at the close of school. 

The custodian shall submit semi-annually an 
inventory of all property in his possession. 

Requisitions for supplies pertaining to the re- 
spective departments in the high, manual train- 
ing and normal schools shall originate with the 
teacher desiring the supplies or with the head 
of the department and take the following course : 
From teacher to principal, from him to head of 
department, and thence to the secretary of the 
board, who sh..ll put it in proper form for sub- 
mission to the board through the superintendent 
and the proper committee. 

The board, through the secretary, shall notify 
each head of department as early as possible of 
the amount set aside for his department for the 
following year, and he will notify e?-ch principal, 
who will confer with his teachers regarding the 
needs of their respective departments. 

TEXTBOOKS AND SUPPLIES. 

82. The Board of Education shall determine 
from time to time the portion of the free text- 
book fund to be expended for books and for 
suppHes. 

Principals of buildings shall make requisitions 
on the supervising principals, who shall forward 
them to the superintendent of schools. All pur- 
chases for books and educational supplies shall be 
recommended by the superintendent of schools 
to the Committee on Textbooks and Supplies. 

All purchases and allowances of supplies shall 
be on the regular forms prescribed by the Board 
of Education. 

The superintendent of schools shall submit an- 
nually at the first regular meeting of the board 
in February, a list of textbooks recommended for 
the following year, provided that changes of text- 
books shall not be made more frequently than 
once in three years, except by a three-fourths vote 
of the board; but additions to the list may be 
made annually. 

83. The supervising principals are required to 
have all property belonging to the schools of the 
District of Columbia assigned to their division, 
properly listed by the various building principals, 
who shall be held responsible for^ its proper care, 
use and safe-keeping. Inventories of property 
and unexpended supplies shall be furnished to the 
secretary of the Board of Education through the 
supervising principals at the close of the school 
year. 

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When the property is worn out and of no 
further use, it shall be listed and the list for- 
warded to the secretary of the Board of Educa- 
tion for such action as the board may determine. 

Worn out textbooks shall be collected at the 
end of each school year in the office buildings of 
the respective supervising principals, who shall 
transmit to the secretary of the board a certified 
list of the same. 

Principals of high, normal and manual train- 
ing schools will be held responsible for all school 
property in their respective schools and will make 
lists of same as provided in the case of supervis- 
ing principals. 

84. All bills shall be properly audited by the 
secretary of the board and if found correct, shall, 
when duly certified, be forwarded to the Com- 
missioners of the District of Columbia for pay- 
ment. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

85. All persons connected with the public 
schools are hereby forbidden to furnish to any 
person or persons not connected with said schools 
or to those connected, except for school purposes, 
any list or lists of the pupils, teachers or other 
employees therein, unless by special permission of 
the board. 

86. Teachers and principals are expected to co- 
operate in every way with the medical inspectors 
and the Health Officer in making effective the 
provisions of the rules regulating the medical in- 
spection of pupils. 

87. All communications for teachers and 
schools, in the way of announcements, orders and 
instructions from the Board of Education or the 
secretary shall be sent as bulletins from the sec- 
retary of the board to the building principals, 
througji the supervising principals. 

^ 88. The secretary shall keep on file a complete 
list of teachers showing their assignment to di- 
visions, grades, buildings and special departments. 

89. When emergencies require the temporary 
detail of any of the clerical force of one depart- 
ment to assist in the work of another, such de- 
tails shall be made only by the president of the 
Board of Education, upon application of the head 
of the department which may be in need of such 
special clerical assistance, after conference with 
the officer from whose department the transfer 
is asked. 

90. Wherever the masculine pronoun occurs it 
is construed to apply to either male or female. 

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Worn ottt 
property 
reported. 



Hifirh school 
principal shall 
report list of 
property. 



Secretary 
shall audit 
bills. 



Furnishingr 
lists of pupils, 
teachers, etc., 
prohibited. 



Teachers 
must 

co-operate 
with medical 
inspector. 



Orders of the 
board sent out 
by secretary. 



Secretary 
shall keep list 
of teachers. 



Details of 
clerks made 
by president 
of board. 



Causes for 
suspension or 



91. The violation of any of the rules of the 

_^_^ Board of Education; disobedience or neglect of 

drsmlssair "* the orders of those in authority; any other of- 
fences against morality or good order ; or inability 
to perform satisfactorily the duties of his position 
on the part of any employee of the board, shall 
be, any or all of tiiem, considered cause for sus- 
pension by the president of the Board of Edu- 
cation, or dismissal by the board. The suspension 
of any employee shall extend only to the next 
meeting, regular or special, of the Board of Edu- 
cation, unless otherwise ordered by the board. 



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INDEX 

Rule. Page. 
Absence — 

of pupils, parents must be notified of 28 20 

of teachers 22 18 

Absent teacher — 

iluty of principal IS 15 

teacher must not be. 23 18 

Admission of pupils 52 28 

application for 53 29 

Afipeals, order of 7o 38 

Appointment of officers and teachers, must conform to law ig 16 

for one year in the first instance. . 20 i7 

afterward during good behavior 20 i7 

of substitutes 41 22 

of janitors 44 26 

Assignment of normal graduates in order of their standing 19 16 

Athletics, board of faculty advisers 64 35 

board of appeals 64 35 

Attendance officers — 

shall carry out provisions of compulsory law 12 15 

shall report to superintendent of schools 12 15 

Attorney for the board — 

shall advise the board 67 36 

opinions shall be recorded 67 36 

shall prepare complaint 67 36 

l^ible reading and Lord's prayer 29 20 

liills. shall be audited by secretary 84 42 

Blank book and forms part of rules 78 39 

Boards of examiners 21 i7 

Buildings shall not be named for living person 77 39 

shall be used only for educational purposes 78 39 

shall be open for pvipils 15 minutes before sessions.... 22 18 

shall be under control of principal 15 15 

B-dsincss — 

teacher shall not engage in other 27 20 

Causes for suspension or dismissal 66 36 

suspensions only until next board meeting 66 36 

Certificate, teacher's 19 16 

Clerks, may be detailed by president of board 89 42 

Closed, schools may be 62 34 

in emergencies by president of board 62 34 

by principal when rooms are cold... 26 19 

College diploma — 

required of teachers of academic and scientific subjects 19 16 

Commencement of school 62 34 

Compulsory attendance, rule for 52 28 

Concerts, entertainments, etc 35 21 

not allowed without permission 35 21 

Corporal punishment — 

to be avoided 30 20 

to be reported 30 20 

Debts, non-payment of 7l 38 

Detail of clerks, made by president of board 89 42 

Diplomas of normal school — 

equivalent to lowest certificate 49 27 

Director of intermediate instruction — 

in charge of grades five to eight 4 12 

shall hold grade meetings 4 12 

shall standardize instruction 4 12 

Director of primary instruction — 

in charge of first four grades 8 13 

shall hold grade meetings 8 13 

Directors of special studies, duties 9 I4 

Dismissals 56 31 

of offir-^rs 66 36 

of pupils 56 31 

of teachers and other employees 66 36 

Employees, conduct of .• 7l 38 

non-payment of debts 7i 38 

may be suspended 65 36 



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Rule PasTf 

causes tor suspension . . . ,/: , .-,(. * ./; , 66 36 

shall not use tobacco * 66 36 

. ■ ; shall not influence legislation T -t, 38 

'Errands, teachers shall not send pupils on 32 20 

l^xaminations, for teachers' positions 21 i7 

passing "mark 21 1 7 

Examiners, board of 21 \7 

lure drills, when given , i7 16 

Flags shall ffy on school and legal holidays 76 39 

half staff on Memorial Day . . . . , 76 39 

Furnishing lists of pupils, forbidden 85 42 

Gathering on school premises — 

teachers must prevent 59 33 

Gifts to teachers prohibited -^t, 20 

Good order, etc., of pupils 59 ■^:^ 

Graduates of other normal schools- 
may be appointed in graded schools 19 16 

may be appointtd in high schools 19 16 

Half day schools, hours for 62 34 

Heads of departments — 

shall confer with principals 10 14 

shall confer with teachers 10 14 

shall visit classes and report 10 14 

shall prepare tests for pupils 10 14 

shall make suggestions in writing 10 

High schools, courses of study 3 

admission 'to . 3 11 

Holidays, provided by rules 62 34 

by order of board 62 34 

Holy days, pupils excused on 58 33 

fTome studies 36 21 

Hours, for whole day schools 62 34 

for -half day schools 62 34 

Injuring school property by pupil 60 ' 34 

Inventories of property — 

by custodian 81 41 

by teachers , . . . . 81 41 

Janitors, how appointed 44 26 

on probation for six mouths 44 26 

may have substitute for ten days 44 26 

shj^ll be responsible for damage 45 26 

duti.es 45 26 

shall not be absent when heating apparatus is in use... 45 2(y 

shall pay entire salary to substitute 45 26 

Keys to school buildings, to whom issued 18 16 

Leave of absence of employees 43 24 

Length of school year. . . . -. 62 34 

Legislation, soliciting of prohibited I}, 38 

Masculine pronoun, applies to both sexes 90 42 

Marriage, icmale teacher forfeits position by 7$ 39 

Meetings, teachers shall attend all 24 19 

jNIembcrship of pupils, how terminated. 56 31 

Methods of instruction, supervising principals shall endeavor 

to improve 6 12 

Military affairs, under committee dz 34 

administered by assistant superintendents 63 34 

oflSycers, how selected 63 34 

commissions 63 34 

Naming of school buildings 11 39 

Non-resident pupils — 

must pay . tuition 52 2^ 

Normal S'^nools, course of study , 46 2/ 

pledge of candidates 4I 27 

qualifications of candidates 48 27 

shall receive diploma . , 49 2?^ 

Official:, comrnuriicatipns • • . . 69 27 

ord«r "of........ 6g 37 

business, communications 69 3? 

Opening exercises — ^ ,fl^) f,;,^. ,, 

reading of Bible without comment >,-, .^,.,.fTr« • • • 29 20 

repeating Lord's prayer 29 20 

appropriate singing 29 20 

Opening of school, teacher must be present before 22 18 



APPENDIX 



COMPULSORY EDUCATION ACT. 
[Public — No. 203.] 

An Act Providing for compulsory education in the 
District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- 
resentatives of the United States of America in 
Congress assembled. That every parent, guardian, 
or other person residing in the District of Colum- 
bia having charge and control of a child between 
the ages of eight and fourteen years shall cause 
such child to be regularly instructed in the ele- 
mentary branches of knowledge, including read- 
ing, writing, English grammar, geography, and 
arithmetic, and pursuant to this end every such 
parent, guardian, or other person aforesaid shall 
cause any child under the charge and control of 
such person to attend some public, private, or 
parochial school during the period of each year 
the public schools in the District are in session, on 
the customary days and during the customary 
hours of the school term. No child shall be cred- 
ited with attendance upon a private or parochial 
school unless the attendance officer hereinafter 
provided for receives a certificate of attendance 
signed by the person in charge of such school. A 
child between the ages aforesaid may be excused 
from school attendance or instruction upon pres- 
entation of satisfactory evidence to the superin- 
tendent of schools that such child is being or has 
been within said year instructed a like period of 
time in the branches taught in the public schools, 
or that such child has acquired these branches of 
learning, or that the physical or mental condition 
of such child is such as to render such attendance 
or instruction inexpedient or impracticable. 

Sec. 2. That if any person having under control 
a child, as described in section one, shall neglect 
for three day sessions or six half-day sessions, 
within any period of five months to cause such 
child to attend school, a written notice shall be 
sent to such person by an attendance officer, here- 
inafter provided for, informing him that the at- 
tendance of the child under the control of such 
person is required at school within a period of 
three days. If such child is not excused as pro- 
vided for in section one, and is not in school with- 
in three days, prosecution shall be begun in the 
police court by an officer empowered under this 
Act against the parent or other person in control 
of the child, and upon conviction the parent or 
other person in control of the child shall be pun- 



ished for each and every offense by a fine of not 
more than twenty dollars. 

Sec. 3. That any child between the ages of eight 
and fourteen who is an habitual truant, who is 
willfully and habitually absent from school, or 
who can not be controlled by the regular school 
discipline while in attendance upon school, shall 
be committed by the board of education to a spe- 
cial or ungraded school for instruction. The 
board of education may set apart school buildings 
or special rooms in a school building for the estab- 
lishment of ungraded schools to provide, under a 
qualified teacher, for the instruction of habitual 
truants or for pupils who can not be controlled by 
the regular school discipline while in attendance 
upon school, and such children may be restricted 
to such schools for instruction until satisfactory 
evidence of improvement is furnished the board 
of education by the teacher in charge whereupon 
such child may be restored to a graded school in 
the district in which he resides. 

Sec. 4. The board of education of the District 
of Columbia is hereby authorized, empowered and 
directed to appoint two truant officers at a salary 
of six hundred dollars per annum each, who, to- 
gether with the inspectors provided for in the bill 
to regulate the employment of child labor and the 
probation officers provided for in the bill estab- 
lishing a juvenile court shall under the direction 
of the board of education carry out the provisions 
of this Act 

Sec. 5. That any person who induces or at- 
tempts to induce any child to be absent unlawfully 
from school, or who knowingly employs or har- 
bors while school is in session any child absent 
unlawfully from school, shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not 
more than twenty dollars. 

Sec. 6. That the officers empowered under this 
Act shall visit any place or establishment where 
minor children are employed to ascertain whether 
the provisions of this law are duly complied with, 
and shall as often as twice a year demand from 
all employers of such children a list of children 
employed, with their names and ages. 

Sec. 7. That any parent or other person who 
makes a false statement concerning the age or 
school attendance of a child between the ages of 
eight and fourteen who is under his control, such 
false statement being made with intent to deceive 
under this Act, shall upon conviction thereof be 
punished by a fine not to exceed twenty dollars. 



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Sec. 8. That this Act shall take effect on July 
first, nineteen hundred and six. 

Sec. 9. That all Acts and parts of Acts in con- 
flict herewith are hereby repealed. 

Approved, June 8, 1906. 

TUITION LAW. 
[PUBUC— No. 98.] 

An Act To amend the provision in an Act approved 
March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, imposing 
a charge for tuition on nonresident pupils in the public 
schools of the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep' 
resentatives of the United States of America in 
Congress assembled, That the provision in the 
Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to 
provide for the expenses of the government of the 
District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, and for other 
purposes," approved March third, eighteen hun- 
dred and ninety-one, which reads: "That here- 
after pupils shall not be admitted to or taught free 
of charge in the public schools of the District of 
Columbia who do not reside in said District, or 
whose parents do not reside or are not engaged in 
business or public duties therein," and so forth, 
be, and the same hereby is, amended so as to read 
as follows : 

"That hereafter pupils shall not be admitted to 
or taught free of charge in the public schools of 
the District of Columbia who do not reside in 
said District, or who during such tutelage do not 
own property in and pay taxes levied by the gov- 
ernment of the District of Columbia, or whose 
parents do not reside or are not engaged in busi- 
ness or public duties therein, or during such tutel- 
age pay taxes levied by the government of the 
District of Columbia: Provided, That such pupils 
may be admitted to and taught in said public 
schools on the payment of such amount, to be 
fixed by the board of trustees, with the approval 
of the Commissioners of said District, as will 
cover the expense of their tuition and cost of 
text-books and school supplies used by them; and 
all payments hereunder shall be paid into the 
Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United 
States and one-half to the credit of the District 
of Columbia." 

Approved, April 14, 1906. 



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REGULATIONS 

GOVERNING 
THE MEDICAL INSPECTION 



OF 



PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



IN THE 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Promulgated in accordance with an Act making 
appropriations to provide for the expenses of the 
Government of tiie District of Columbia, ap- 
proved March 3, 1903. 

Formulated by the Health Officer, June 30, 1903. 

Approved by the Board of Education, June 30, 
1903. 

Approved by the Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia, July 14, 1903. 

Amended by the Health Officer, July 7, 1907. 

Approved by the Board of Education, October 
9, 1907. 

Approved by the Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia, December 7, 1907. 



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REGULATIONS 
GOVERNING THE MEDICAL INSPEC- 
TION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
IN THE 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Section i. No pupil will be permitted to attend 
the public schools of the District of Columbia who 
is suffering from any defect or disease which ren- 
ders his presence materially detrimental to the 
welfare or the safety of other pupils, nor will any 
pUDil be permitted to attend school when such at- 
tendance will materially jeopardize his own health 
and the condition out of which such jeopardy 
arises is of a temporary character. 

Section 2. Every teacher, immediately after 
the opening of school each day, will carefully ob- 
serve the general expression and condition of 
every pupil and determine whether any of them 
present appearances suggestive of the advisability 
of exclusion under the provisions of these regula- 
tions. 

Section 3. Every teacher, within one-quarter 
hour after the opening of school each day, will 
forward to the principal of the building in which 
she teaches, a written request on the form pro- 
vided for that purpose, for the examination by a 
medical inspector, of each pupil under his care who 
belongs or appears to belong to any of the fol- 
lowing classes : 

Class A. Pupils whose appearances, or 
known or suspected histories, indicate that 
they may be suffering from conditions render- 
ing their exclusion from school necessary 
under the provisions of these regulations. 

Class B. Pupils who have returned after 
having been excluded from school on the rec- 
ommendation of the Health Oflficer or of a 
medical inspector, except excluded pupils who 
' lesent certificates signed by the Health Offi- 
cer ^ authorizing their return ; but excluded 
pupils whose return is clearly forbidden by 
these regulations are not to be referred to the 
medical inspector for examination, but are to 
be sent home at once. 

Class C. Pupils who have been absent from 
school without cause for five or more consec- 
utive school days, unless the teacher has rea- 
son to believe that the absentee has not suf- 
fered from or been exposed to a communi- 
cable disease. 

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Requests for the examination of pupils may, 
however, be made out and forwarded to the 
principal for appropriate action, in case of 
emergency, at any time during the school day. 

Section 4. Any teacher believing that a pupil in 
his class is suffering from a communicable disease 
must bring the case to the attention of the princi- 
pal of the building, and the principal must isolate 
the pupil, as well as the facilities at his command 
will permit, pending the arrival of the medical 
inspector and instruction from him as to the dis- 
posal of the case ; or if the case be an urgent one, 
such for instance as a suspected case of smallpox, 
the principal must submit the facts to the Health 
Officer at once, by telephone, or by messenger and 
dispose of the case in such manner as the Health 
Officer directs. 

Section 5. A teacher may, in her discretion, 
permit a pupil who is not suspected of having a 
communicable disease to remain in the class room 
pending the arrival of a medical inspector. 

Section 6. Every principal of a school will 
notify the medical inspector assigned to such 
school whenever the services of a medical in- 
spector are required. With respect to the examin- 
ation of pupils attending all-day classes or morn- 
ing classes, such notification must be given not 
later than half past nine o'clock, and notification 
with respect to pupils attending afternoon classes 
must be given not later than half past one o'clock. 
If, however, a principal fails to notify the inspec- 
tor within the allowed time, he must notify him as 
soon thereafter as possible, and in case of emer- 
gency notification may be given at any time. 

Section 7. Every medical inspector, upon re- 
ceiving notice that his services are required at any 
of the schools to which he has been assigned, will 
respond to such notice on the day of its receipt 
and as soon after its receipt as is practicable. 

Section 8. Every medical inspector will devote 
to actual inspection work each school day not less 
than three hours. He will first visit each school 
from which he has received notice to call and da 
whatever may be necessary there. If thereafter 
any part of the required three hour period re- 
mains, the inspector will devote it to the making 
of routine examinations at schools as hereinafter 
described. 

Section 9. When a medical inspector calls at a 
school in response to a request for his services he 
will immediately procure from the principal the 
reports made by teachers in compliance with the 
requirements of Section 4 of these regulations. 

so 



Then, with the cooperation of the principal, and 
in his presence or in the presence of a teacher 
detailed by the principal for that purpose, he will 
examine all such pupils as are brought to his at- 
tention for that purpose. In so doing he will 
afford the principal and teachers every opportunity 
to observe the evidence and to learn the reason 
upon which he bases his recommendations, so that 
the principal and teachers may be better able 
thereafter to select from among the pupils under 
their care those who by reason of defect or dis- 
ease are unfit to attend school. In the making of 
such examinations the principal and teachers will 
assist the inspector in every possible way. All 
examinations are to be made with the utmost pos- 
sible privacy and in no case is the examination of 
an individual pupil, as distinguished from the ex- 
amination of an entire class, to be made in the 
class room in the presence of other pupils. 

Section lo. The medical inspector will indorse 
on the forms which have been made out by the 
teacher (Form A) his tentative diagnoses and 
his recommendations. Notes of the subjective 
and objective symptoms upon which the inspector 
bases his recommendations for the exclusion of a 
pupil from school should be made, if the inspector 
deems it necessary, on the duplicate form, but only 
such notes should be made in this way as can be 
made without disclosing information essentially 
confidential in its nature. 

The "Original" form the inspector will give to 
the principal of the school for proper action. The 
"Duplicate" he will preserve and forward to the 
Health Officer at the close of the day after having 
made such a memorandum therefrom as may be 
necessary to enable the inspector to make out his 
weekly report. The principal will forward the 
"Original" to the supervising principal as soon as 
practicable, except in cases of exclusion, in which 
cases the "Original" should be retained by the 
principal until after the pupil has been readmitted 
or his name erased from the school roll. 

Section II. The teacher of the school in coop- 
eration with the principal will carry out the rec- 
ommendations of the medical inspector as promptly 
as possible. 

Section 12. Should any principal desire to ap- 
peal from the decision of the inspector, he will 
first carry out the recommendations of such in- 
spector, and after having done so address his 
appeal, in writing, to the supervising principal of 
the division to which he is assigned. The super- 
vising principal may undertake to adjust the case 

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by conferring with the Health Officer, either di- 
rectly or through the superintendent of public 
schools. 

Section 13. A medical inspector, in determining 
which of the schools under his supervision shall 
be visited on any particular day, independently of 
requests for his services, will take into considera- 
tion the length of time that has elapsed since each 
of the various schools under his supervision has 
been visited, whether on special calls or on routine 
visits, and will endeavor to arrange his routine 
visits so that each of the schools assigned to him 
will receive an equal amount of attention. Routine 
visits may be made during either the morning or 
the afternoon sessions of school, as best suits the 
convenience of the medical inspector, but visits to 
anv one school in which classes are held both in 
the forenoon and in the afternoon should not be 
continuously limited either to the morning or 
afternoon session. 

Section 14. A medical inspector, upon visiting 
a school for the purpose of making a routine in- 
spection, will confer with the principal and advise 
him with reference to all such matters of hygiene 
or sanitation as may be brought to the inspector's 
attention. At each such visit the inspector, with 
the principal of the school, or without him, if the 
principal prefers, will go to one or more of the 
class rooms and to other parts of the building and 
observe the physical condition of the pupils and 
rooms and of the building generally. During such 
inspections the inspector will take occasion to 
invite the attention of the principal and teachers 
to such apparently sick or defective pupils as he 
may observe and to such conditions in the room 
and in the building generally as require correc- 
tion, so that appropriate action may be taken and 
similar conditions avoided in the future. 

Inspectors are cautioned that they are not to act 
as advisers of principals and teachers, except on 
matters peculiar to the medical profession, and 
are not to assume the roll of critics merely. 
Under no circumstances should advice be given or 
remarks made in the presence of pupils, which 
can be either construed or misconstrued as reflec- 
tions on the school management. Any apparent 
dereliction on the part of any janitor should be 
brought privately to the attention of the principal 
of the building in which such janitor is employed, 
so that appropriate action may be had. 

Section 15. Should occasion require the making 
of a special inspection of all the pupils in any 
class or classes, as, for instance, for the purpose of 



determining whether any of them are or are not 
suffering from scarlet fever or pediculosis, the in- 
soector will invite the principal to accompany him, 
and then, either with or without the principal, will 
proceed to the class or classes to be examined. 
There the inspector will look over the pupils in a 
general way, but will make no physical examina- 
tion of individual pupils in the class room. If, in 
the course of such examination, it becomes ap- 
parent that a closer examination of any pupil is 
desirable, the teacher will, on the request of the 
inspector, send such pupil to some proper place in 
the building where such examination can be made 
as the inspector deems necessary. For each pupil 
set aside for special examination the teacher will 
make out the usual request for examination as 
provided by Section 3 of these regulations. 

In connection with the examination of the pupils 
of any class for the purpose of detecting the pres- 
ence of pupils suffering from scarlet fever, the 
pupils may be required to raise their hands so as 
to permit the easier and more rapid examination; 
but in such cases the inspector must be careful to 
avoid touching in any way the pupils under ex- 
amination, at least until after their removal to the 
examination room, and then if it becomes neces- 
sary to touch or handle any pupil, and that pupil 
is found to have scarlet fever, the inspector will 
carefully disinfect his hands before proceeding to 
the examination of other pupils. 

Section 16. The teacher will give to each pupil 
whom she excludes from school a proper notice, 
showing the reason for exclusion and the condi- 
tions unon which he will be allowed to return. 
And if a pupil, although not formally excluded in 
the first instance, is known to be absent because of 
conditions which, if he were in attendance, would 
justify his exclusion, the teacher will send a like 
notice to the parent or guardian of such pupil and 
will give a duplicate thereof to the inspector at 
tlie time of his next visit. When an excluded 
pupil has complied with the conditions necessary 
to^ entitle him to readmission to school the teacher 
win forward the exclusion blank returned by the 
pupil and containing evidence of such compliance 
through the principal to the supervising principal. 

Section 17. In event of differences of opinion 
between a medical inspector and the parent, guard- 
ian or family physician of any pupil relative to 
the necessity for exclusion of the pupil from 
school, the teacher will refer the parent or guard- 
ian to the Health Officer, and if the circumstances 
in his judgment so require, will report the facts of 



the case to the supervising principal. Under no 
circumstances will teachers, principals of schools, 
medical inspectors or supervising principals, allow 
themselves to become parties to a controversy in 
matters of this kind, but all such matters must be 
settled by conference between the parent or guard- 
ian and the Health Officer. 

Section i8. A pupil who has been excluded 
from school because of conditions not affecting or 
liable to affect the health of other pupils, or be- 
cause of grippe, German measles, communicable 
disease of the eye, or parasitic disease of the hair 
or skin, may be permitted to return to school at 
any time after the expiration of the period speci- 
fied in the notice of exclusion. He may be per- 
mitted to return sooner if he presents a certificate 
from a lawfully practicing physician showing that 
in the judgment of such physician he can return 
with safety to himself, and if the pupil has suf- 
fered from the grippe, German measles, communi- 
cable disease of the eye, or parasitic disease of the 
skin or hair, that the communicability of the dis- 
ease has passed. But every such pupil must be re- 
ported to the medical inspector for examination 
on the day of the pupil's return to school. After 
having reported the case the principal and the 
teacher will be guided in their future action by 
whatever recommendation the medical inspector 
makes. 

Section 19. The return of a pupil to school 
after he has suffered from or^ been exposed to 
smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whoop- 
ing cough, chickenpox and epidemic cerebro-spinal 
meningitis, is regulated primarily by an Act to 
prevent the spread of contagious diseases in. the 
District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1897 ; an 
Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, 
measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, epidemic 
cerebro-spinal meningitis and typhoid fever in the 
District of Columbia, approved February 9, 1907; 
and the regulations for the prevention of the dis- 
eases just named, promulgated by the Commis- 
sioners by authority of the latter act, pertinent 
extract from which laws and regulations appear 
on pages 60 to 62. In order, however, that' the 
health of pupils attending public schools may be 
further safeguarded no pupil who has suffered 
from measles will be permitted to return to school 
until after the expiration of three weeks from the 
onset of the disease; no pupil suffering from 
whooping cough until after the expiration of five 
weeks; no pupil suffering from chickenpox until 
after the expiration of two weeks, and no pupil 



suffering from mumps until after the expiratipi*- 
of three weeks. ' ' 

A pupil who has suffered from smallpox, scarlet 
fever, or diphtheria may be permitted to return at 
any time, but only on the presentation of a certifi- 
cate issued by the Health Officer authorizing him 
so to do. No such certificate will be required 
from pupils who have suffered from measles, 
whooping cough, chickenpox, mumps, grippe, Ger- 
man measles, communicable diseases of the eye 
and parasitic diseases of the skin and hair, but 
every such pupil must, on the day of his return, 
be reported to the medical inspector for examina- 
tion. Pupils returning after smallpox, scarlet 
fever and diphtheria, and provided with certifi- 
cates from the Health Officer, need not be so 
referred, and if not provided with such certificate 
they should be sent home immediately. Pupils 
who are not suffering from mumps but have mere- 
ly been exposed to that disease need not be ex- 
cluded from school. 

Section 20. If any pupil be excluded from 
school because of suspected communicable disease 
only, the medical inspector will visit such pupil on 
the day following his exclusion for the purpose of 
confirming or disproving his tentative diagnosis. 
If at the time of such visit he finds a physician in 
attendance on the case, he will retire without ex- 
amining the patient, unless he is requested by tlie 
attending physician to do so. 

Section 21. Whenever a pupil is excluded from 
school on account of communicable disease, the 
medical inspector will recommend such disinfec- 
tion as in his judgment is necessary. Ordinarily 
the seat and desk of the infected pupil must be 
washed with a. proper disinfecting solution ; pen- 
holders, pencils, etc., which have been in the pos- 
session of the pupil must be treated in the same 
manner if they cannot be destroyed. In some 
cases It will be necessary to wash the handrails 
of stairways, doorknobs, etc. Work of this kind 
must be done by the janitor of the school building. 
Disinfection of books, when necessary, will be 
done by employees of the Health Department. 

Section 22. Whenever, in the judgment of the 
medical inspector, a school building or part thereof 
requires disinfection over and beyond that which 
can be done by the janitor of such building, the 
medical inspector will so notify the Health Officer 
at the earliest possible moment. Whether such 
disinfection shall or shall not be done will be de- 
termined by the Health Officer or by the inspector 
in charge of the contagious disease service after 

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due consideration of all facts in the case. If such 
disinfection be done, it will be undertaken pri- 
marily by employees in the service of the Health 
Department, but all persons connected with the 
school building to be disinfected will render such 
assistance as may be practicable. 

Section 23. The Health Officer will furnish the 
superintendent of public schools with a detailed 
statement of all school property destroyed because 
of infection and a certificate showing the neces- 
sity for such action. 

Section 24. If, in the judgment of a medical 
inspector, any school building or part thereof 
should be closed he will forthwith make a recom- 
mendation to that effect to the Health Officer, who 
will determine what action should be taken and 
recommend accordingly. Recommendations of the 
Health Officer looking toward the closing of any 
school building or part thereof will be communi- 
cated directly to the office of the superintendent 
of public schools or to his residence, if it be 
found impracticable to communicate with his of- 
fice. The superintendent of public schools will 
thereupon become responsible for all further 
action looking toward the closing of any such 
school building or part thereof. Teachers and 
principals will be governed by such instructions 
as they receive from the superintendent of public 
schools. 

Section 25. A medical inspector will, upon the 
request of the principal of a school building, and 
with the consent of the teacher or janitor affected, 
examine any such principal, teacher or janitor, to 
determine the advisability of such principal, teach- 
er or janitor continuing his school duties. Reports 
and recommendations in cases of teachers and 
janitors will be addressed to the principal of the 
school building, and in the case of principals will 
be addressed to the proper supervising principal 
All such reports, however, will be delivered by the 
medical inspector to the principal of the school 
building. 

Section 26. This exclusion of teachers and 
janitors from schools and the resumption by them 
of their school duties will be determined in ac- 
cordance with these regulations so far as they 
may be applicable. 

Section 27. In the event of the occurrence of 
any emergency requiring medical aid, the princi- 
pal of the building will call at once upon the med- 
ical inspector assigned to such building. If unable 
to secure his services with reasonable promptness, 
he will communicate with the Health Department, 



which will arrange for the services of another 
inspector, or in some other manner supply the 
needed assistance. 

Section 28. Medical inspectors will respond 
promptly to all calls coming from any of the 
school buildings under their care, or from the 
Health Department, for aid in any case of emer- 
gency requiring medical care. 

Section 29. Examination of applicants for ad- 
mission to the normal school, of pupils in that 
school seeking graduation, and of applicants for 
anoointment as teachers or janitors, to determine 
their physical fitness for admission, graduation or 
appointment, will be made when requested by the 
Board of Education by a medical inspector or 
medical inspectors of schools detailed for that 
purpose by the Health Officer. 

Section 30. Medical inspectors will note such 
insanitary conditions in and about school buildings 
as may be called to their attention or as may come 
under their personal observation, and will report 
them to the Health Officer. The Health Officer, 
if such conditions arise from property under the 
control of the Board of Education, will report 
them to that board, and to the Engineer Depart- 
ment. Inspectors will bear in mind that they are 
not to act as mere agents for the transmission of 
complaints of the cause of which they have no 
personal knowledge. 

Section 31. Each day, as soon as possible after 
leaving the last school to be visited, inspectors 
will mail to the Health Officer the duplicate slips 
showing tentative diagnoses and recommendations 
which they have made during the day (Form A, 
Duplicate). Before doing so, however, they will 
note for use in the preparation of their weekly 
report (Form D) such data as may be necessary 
for that purpose. 

Section 32. Every officer and agent of the 
Health Department and of the Board of Educa- 
tion will be held strictly accountable for any un- 
warrantable disclosure of information acquired in 
his official capacity. A medical inspector of pub- 
lic schools does not lose his character as a physi- 
cian by reason of his office and therefore must not 
disclose any information which is essentially con- 
fidential in its character and which he has ac- 
quired in his official capacity, except to those 
properly entitled to receive it. No such informa- 
tion should ever be embodied in routine reports, 
but if a report is necessary it should be specially 
and confidentially submitted. 

Section S3- Medical inspectors will be required 

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•taljperform such duties in connection with the 
■niedioal inspection of public schools, in addition to 
those specifically described in these regulations, as 
'may' be directed by the Health Officer. No physi- 
cal examination of the pupils of any entire room 
of building is to be undertaken except so far as 
•may -be necessary for the detection of communi- 
cable diseases and of defects of sight and hearing, 
without the consent of the Boards of Education. 
, Section 34. If by reason of illness or any other 
'CJtuje the" medical inspector is unable to report at 
>id).Gols under his supervision in his usual manner, 
.be (f will communicate at once, with the Health 
Officer, so that proper arrangements can be made 
;tor the performance of his work. A written ex- 
;pl^;nation of such absence must in each case be 
forwarded to the Health Officer as soon as prac- 
ticable: 

Sfection 35. Medical inspectors will report at 
the Health Office from time to time as m^y be 
:directed by the Health Officer. Special meetings 
of medical inspectors of schools may be called at 
other places in. the discretion of the Health Officer. 

;^ec t ion . 36. . The jurisdiction, of the medical in- 
spector of schools 15 limited and defined by these 
regulations, Visits, to pupils at their homes or 
ex^arriJnations' of pupils there may be made only as 
thes^- regulations authorize, and then only with 
the consent of their parents or guardians, and if 
any such pupil be under the care of a physician, 
the-consetj:t of such physician also must be ob- 
tained. ■ ■:■'■. AT- ^ . ^ 

Section 37. Under no circumstances will a 
medical inspector undertake to treat a pupil, teach- 
er or janitor who has been excluded from school 
on his recommendation during the period of such 
exclusion, unless such pupil, teacher or janitor,' or 
the family of such pupil, teacher or janitor, has 
been under the professional care of such inspector 
prior to the occurrence, of the condition which led 
to exclusion ; provided, however, that any circular 
of, circulars relative to the treatment of pedicu- 
losis, ringworm, or any similar condition which 
the Health Officer may furnish may be given to 
pupils excluded from school because suffering 
from such disease, Any effort to m.ake the office 
of medical inspectors of schools a means for in- 
creasing private practice will lead to the prompt 
dismissal of the offender. . 

Section 38. Every principal of a school will 
seie jthat there are at all times on hand in; the 
building under his supervision a sufficient supply 
of blanks of all kinds, tongue depressors, disin- 



fectants and proper receptacles for the disinfect- 
ing solutions, and soap, towels and a nail brush 
for the use of the inspector. These articles can 
be obtained by applying to the secretary of the 
Board of Education. 

Medical inspectors will obtain such articles as 
are needed solely for their use in the keeping of 
their records and the making of their reports by 
application to the Health Officer. Articles needed 
for use in connection with the actual examination 
of puoils and for the making out of recommenda- 
tions, etc., at school buildings, will be supplied in 
all cases b}^ the principals of such buildings. 

Section 39. The word "he" and the derivatives 
thereof wherever used in these regulations are to 
be read to include the word ''she" and its corre- 
sponding derivatives, respectively, and an}- power 
and authoritv conferred upon a principal or teach- 
er in and bv these regulations may be exercised 
by any officer in the service of the Board of Edu- 
cation, having a higher rank, and any power and 
authority conferred upon a medical inspector may 
be exercised by any officer in the service of the 
Health Department with relatively higher stand- 
ing. 



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EXTRACTS 

FROM THE 

REGULATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION 

OF 

Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Measles, Whooping Cough, Chicken Pox, 
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Menirgitis, end Typhoid Fever 

IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



QUARANTINE OF PATIENT. 
Skc. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person having p)ower and 
authority to prevent topermit a patient suffering from diphtheria, 
scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic 
cerebro-spinal meningitis, or typhoid fever, to do, and for any 
such patient to do, any of the following things: 



b To appear in school, church, store, or place of amusement, 
or any other place of public assemblage. 



Sec. 3. No person shall knowingly expose himself or any 
other person, or if he has power and authority to prevent permit 
any other person to be exposed, to infection by scarlet fever, 
diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic 
cerebro-spinal meningitis, or typhoid fever, unless such exposure 
is necessary for the proper care and treatment of the patient. 



Sec. 5. No person residing in any dwelling house or in any 

apartments where there is in said dwelling house or apartments 

a patient suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, or 

epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, shall, while so residing and 

during the continuance of such case attend public or private 

school or Sunda)' school. 

* * * 

Sec. 6. No person who has resided in any dwelling house or 
apartments while there was in such dwelling house or apartments 
a patient suffering from scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, or 
epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis shall after the removal, death, 
or recovery of the patient, or after the removal of such person 

60 



from such dwelling house or apartments, attend public or private 
school, or Sunday school, without the written permission of the 
health officer, for a period following the first proper isolation of 
the patient, when no disinfection is to be made, and when dis- 
infection is necessary immediately following the completion of 
such disinfection, as may be directed by the health officer, and 
continuing if the patient was suffering from scarlet fever, diph- 
theria, or epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis for seven days, or if 
the patient was suffering from lAejigljes tor fourteen days. 
* * * 

Sec. i8. Any person who is suffering from symptoms that so 
resemble those of diphtherial,, sScii'let/ fever, measles, whooping 
cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, or typhoid 
fever, that they. can not be diatinguiahed therefrom- with reason- 
able certainty shall be regarded for the purposes of these regula- 
tions as suffering from the disease whose symptons he presents ; 
Provided^ hozvevej\ That no warning signs shall be displayed 
except in cases definitely diagnosed as diphtheria or scarlet fever. 

Sec. 19. The word "building" as used in these regulations 
shall be held to include not only buildings as the word is ordinar- 
ily understood, but also boats, vessels, cars, vans-, ^nd ^all otRer 
places where a sick person may be. The terrrt ■ ^ apartnrient 
house" shall be held to mean abuiMing in which tw^b 'of irto^e 
families are living independently of one another, with ^^p^ta'te 
water closets and bath rooms, and with separate kitchens, 'il /ihy'. 
for each family. These regulations' shall be in full fbrbe and 
effect throughout the District of Columbia on and after the Hiinfh 
day of April. 1907. i>rfi Jnavt^vj 

}£rff idofflo 
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61 



EXTRACTS 

FROM AN ACT TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF 
SMALLPOX 

AND OTHER CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 

IN THE 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Sec. 17, That the principal, teacher, or other person or persons 
in charge of any school, seminary, college, or Sunday school in 
said District shall not permit any person to attend such school, 
seminary, college, or Sunday school who is or has been suffering 
from or exposed to any contagious disease and whose exclusion 
from such school, seminary, college, or Sunday school has been 
certified to by said health officer as in his opinion necessary to 
prevent the spread of such contagious disease; persons so excluded 
may be permitted to return to such school, seminary, college, or 
Sunday school upon presentation of a certificate f lom said health 
officer that they may do so without danger of spreading such 
contagious disease. 



62 



ORGANIC LAW. 
[Public — No. 254.] 

An Act To fix and regulate the salaries of 
teachers, school officers, and other employees of the 
board of education of the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the 'Senate and House of Rep- 
resentatives of the United States of America in 
Congress assembled, That on and after July first, 
nineteen and six, all children of school age be- 
ing instructed in the schools of the District be- 
yond the second grade shall be given a whole 
school day's session. 

Sec. 2. That the control of the public schools 
of the District of Columbia is hereby vested in 
a board of education to consist of nine members 
all of whom shall have been for five years im- 
mediately preceding their appointment bona fide 
residents of the District of Columbia and three of 
whom shall be women. The members of the 
board of education shall be appointed by the 
supreme court judges of the District of Columbia 
for terms of three years each, except that the 
original appointments under this Act shall be as 
follows : Three for one year, three for two 
years, and three for three years, and members 
shall be eligible for reappointment. The mem- 
bers shall serve without compensation. Vacancies 
lor unexpired terms, caused by death, resignation, 
or otherwise, shall be filled by the judges of the 
supreme court of the District of Columbia. The 
board shall meet for organization within thirty 
days after appointment. They shall appoint a 
secretary, who shall not be a member of the board, 
and they shall hold stated meetings at least once 
a month during the school year and such addi- 
tional meetings as they may from time to time 
provide for. The organization meeting, and all 
meetings whatsoever thereafter, shall be open to 
the public, except committee meetings dealing with 
the appointment of teachers. 

No appointment, promotion, transfer, or dis- 
missal of any director, supervising principal, 
principal, head of department, teacher, or any 
otl er subordinate to the superintendent of schools, 
shall be made by the board of education, except 
upon the written recommendation of the superin- 
tendent of schools. 

The board shall determine all questions of gen- 
eral policy relating to the schools, shall appoint 
the executive ofiicers hereinafter provided for, 
define their duties, and direct expenditures. All 
expenditures of public funds for such school pur- 

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poses shall be made and accounted for as now 
provided by la\y under the direction and control 
of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 
The board shall appoint all teachers in the man- 
ner hereinafter prescribed and all other employees 
provided for in this Act. 

The board of education shall annually on the 
first day of October transmit to the Commis- 
sioners of the District of Columbia an estimate 
in detail of the amount of money required for the 
public schools for the ensuing year, and said 
Commissioners shall transmit the same in their 
annual estimate of appropriations for the District 
of Columbia, v^-ith such recommendations as they 
may deem proper. 

Sec. 3. That the board shall appoint one super- 
intendent for all the public schools in the District 
of Columbia, who shall hold said office for a 
term of three years and who shall have the direc- 
tion of and supervision in all matters pertaining 
to the instruction in all the schools under the 
board of education. He shall have a seat in the 
board and the right to speak on all matters be- 
fore the board, but not the right to vote. 

The board shall have power to remove the 
superintendent at any time for adequate cause 
affecting his character and efficiency as superin- 
tendent. 

The board, upon the written recommendation 
of the superintendent of schools, shall also ap- 
point one white assistant superintendent for the 
white schools and one colored assistant superin- 
tendent for the colored schools. The white as- 
sistant superintendent, under the direction of the 
superintendent of schools, shall have general 
supervision over the white schools, and is specifi- 
cally charged, under the direction of the superin- 
tendent, with the unification, as far as may be 
practicable, of the educational work of the white 
high schools and of all academic and scientific 
subjects in the McKinley Manual Training School 
and the Business High School. 

The colored assistant superintendent, under the 
direction of the superintendent of schools, shall 
have sole charge of all teachers, classes, and 
schools in which colored children are taught. And 
he is specifically charged, under the direction of 
the superintendent, with the unification, so far 
as may be practicable, of the educational work of 
the colored high schools, and of all the academic 
and scientific subjects of the Armstrong Manual 
Training School. And he also shall be charged 

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specifically, under the direction of the superin- 
tendent, with the unification of the educational 
work of the intermediate grades of the colored 
schools. 

The board, upon the written recommendation 
of the superintendent of schools, shall appoint a 
director of intermediate instruction for the white 
schools who shall have charge under the direc- 
tion of the superintendent of the unification of 
educational work of grades five to eight, inclusive. 

There shall be appointed b}^ the board a super- 
visor of manual training who, under the direction 
of the superintendent, shall have supervision of 
manual training instruction. 

Sec. 4. That the salaries of teachers, school 
officers and other employees of the board of edu- 
cation of the District of Columbia shall be as 
follows : 

TEACHERS. 



Class I 


Class 2 


Class 3 


Class 4. 


Class 5. 


Class 6. 


$500 


$600 


$650 


$800 


$950 


$1,000 ■ 




525 


625 


675 


830 


990 


1,000 




SSO 


650 


700 


860 


1,030 


1,100 




575 


675 


725 


890 


1,070 


1,200 




600 


700 


750 


920 


1,110 


1,300 


■ Group A. 






775 


950 


1,150 


1,400 








800 


980 


1,190 


1,500 








825 


1,010 


1,230 


1,600 








850 


1,040 


1,270 


1,700 








875 


1,070 


1,310 


1,800 J 








900 


1,100 


1.350 


1,900] 

2,000 V Group B. 

2,100 

2,200 J 



Kindergarten assistants, class one. 

Model teachers of first and second grades, and 
of kindergarten, class four. 

Teachers of first and second grades, class two. 

Teachers of third and fourth grades, and 
kindergarten principals, class three. 

Teachers of fifth, sixth, and seventh grades, 
class four. 

Teachers of eighth grades, class five. 

Teachers of manual training, drawing, physical 
culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, in 
the graded schools, classes three to four, inclu- 
sive. 

Teachers of manual training, drawing, physical 
culture, music, domestic science, and domestic art 
in the normal, high and manual training schools, 
classes four to five. 

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Assistants to directors of primary instruction, 
classes four and five. 

Head teachers and teachers of normal, high, 
and manual training schools, Group A, class six : 
Proznded, That teachers of the normal, high, and 
manual training schools now receiving less '.han 
eight hundred dollars, who have not taught five 
years or more in graded or high schools, shall re- 
ceive an annual increase not to exceed one hun- 
dred and fifty dollars until the minimum salary 
of class six is reached, when they shall thereafter 
receive the increase provided in said class: And 
provided further, That special beginning teaclier> 
in the normal school may be appointed for a two 
years' probationary period upon the recommenda- 
tion of the principal of the normal school at a sal- 
ary of eight hundred dollars for the first year and 
nine hundred dollars for the second year, and 
thereafter, if continued, they shall receive the in- 
crease provided for in this class. 

Heads of departments in high and manual train- 
ing schools, Group B of class six. 

Librarians and clerks, classes one, two, and 
three. 

Librarian of the teachers' library, class four. 

Teachers not otherwise provided for, classes 
one to four. 

Teachers, librarians, and clerks eligible to more 
than one class shall be placed in the lowest class 
to which they are eligible. 

— Sec. 5. That the board of education shall class- 
ify all academic and scientific subjects in the Cen- 
tral, Eastern, Western, and Business high schools, 
and the McKinley Manual Training School into 
eight departments so that each department shall 
contain correlated subjects and the M Street High 
School and the Armstrong Manual Training 
School shall be similarly classified into four de- 
partments so that each department shall contain 
correlated subjects. 

Whenever a department includes two or more 
high schools then the teacher in charge of the de- 
partment shall be designated "Head of the depart- 
ment," otherwise the teacher in charge of the de- 
partment shall be designated "Head teacher;" 
Provided, That heads of departmentsas such have 
only an advisory capacity in educational matters 
and upon all questions shall be inferior in author- 
ity to the principal of each particular school :_ Pro- 
vided further, That no class shall be formed in the 
high schools with less than ten pupils except in the 
M^Street High School in the case of subjects not 



offered as well in the Armstrong Manual Training 
School but this limitation shall not apply to pupils 
who have already entered upon a continuous 
course of two or more years. 

Sec. 6. That the board of education shall ar- 
range all teachers in the classes and groups in the 
above schedule, except as hereinafter specified. 

For the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and seven, each head of department and 
teacher shall receive the salary in his class next 
above his present salary, and no teacher or princi- 
pal shall in any event receive less than his or her 
present salary. If promoted to a higher class he 
shall receive the salary in that class next above 
his present salary, and after June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and seven, if his work is satisfactory, he 
shall receive an annual increase within his class or 
group, as herein provided, without action of the 
board of education; but no teacher shall in any 
one year receive more than one promotion within 
his class or group : Provided, That if the salar}' 
in his class next above his present salary shall be 
less than twenty-five dollars in excess of his pres- 
ent salary he shall receive the next higher salary, 
so that no teacher shall receive for the first year 
an increase of less than twenty-five dollars. 

A teacher shall not be promoted from one class 
to another, except by the board of education, upon 
the recommendation of the officer having direct 
supervision of said teacher and in the case of col- 
ored teachers upon the additional recommendation 
of the colored assistant superintendent. Such rec- 
ommendations shall in each case be made through 
and with the approval of the superintendent of 
schools. 

Teachers shall be promoted for superior work 
from Group A to Group B of class six only after 
oral and written examinations by the boards of 
examiners upon recommendation as follows : 

All high and normal school teachers and teach- 
ers of the manual training schools upon the rec- 
ommendation of their respective principals. 

Such recommendations shall in each case be 
made through and with the approval of the super- 
intendent of schools, and with the additional rec- 
ommendation of the colored assistant superinten- 
dent for the colored teachers. 

No teacher, head of department, principal, or 
supervising principal shall be appointed to any 
position in the graded schools, high schools, man- 
ual training schools, or normal schools, and no 
director, assistant director, or teacher of special 



studies shall be appointed until he shall have 
passed an examination prescribed by the boards of 
examiners. No person without a degree from an 
accredited college, or a graduation certificate from 
an accredited normal school, such normal-school 
graduate to have had at least five years of experi- 
ence as a teacher in a high school, shall hereafter 
be appointed to teach any academic or scientific 
subjects in the normal, high, and manual training 
schools. This provision for examination shall not 
apply to teachers coming from the normal schools, 
or teachers being advanced from the different 
classes in the grade schools : Provided, That no 
teacher or officer in the service of the public 
schools of the District of Columbia at the time of 
the passage of this Act shall, by the operation of 
this Act, be required to take any examination, 
either mental or physical, to be continued in the 
service. The boards of examiners for carrying 
out the above provisions with reference to exam- 
inations shall consist of the superintendent and 
two heads of departments of the white schools for 
the white teachers and of the superintendent and 
two heads of departments of the colored schools 
for colored teachers. The designation of such 
heads of departments for membership on these 
boards to be made by the board of education annu- 
ally. 

Every new teacher at the time of his appoint- 
ment shall be assigned to a class or group by the 
board of education on the recommendation of the 
superintendent of schools, and shall receive for the 
first year the minimum pay of said class or group. 
The first year in Group A, class six, shall be pro- 
bationary. 

For the purpose of this Act a model teacher 
shall be held to be a teacher of the first or second 
grade, or of the kindergarten whose special apti- 
tude for primary teaching makes it desirable to 
retain him in said grades with the pay of a higher 
grade. 

Teachers of classes one and two shall receive 
an annual increase of salan.' of twenty-five dollars 
for four years, or until the maximum is reached. 

Teachers of class three shall receive an annual 
increase of salary of twenty-five dollars for ten 
vears, or until the maximum is reached. 

Teachers of class four shall receive an annual 
increase of salary of thirty dollars for ten years, 
or until the maximum is reached. 

Teachers of class five shall receive an annual 
increase of salary of forty dollars for ten years, 
or until the maximum is reached. 



Teachers in Group A of class six, after the 
probationary year, shall receive an annual in- 
crease of salary of one hundred dollars for eight 
years ; in Group B, of one hundred dollars for 
three years. 

Sec. 7. That principals of grade-school build- 
ings shall receive for services rendered as such, 
in addition to their grade salary, the )'^early sum 
of thirty dollars for each session room in the 
building. 

The term "session room" shall be held to des- 
ignate a class room in which the regular work of 
a class of not less than twenty-five people is car- 
ried on. 

Principals of normal, high, and manual training 
schools shall receive a salary of two thousand 
dollars per annum, together with an annual in- 
crease of one hundred dollars for five years. All 
such principals shall be appointed at the minimum 
salary, and each shall have entire control of his 
school, both executive and educational, subject 
only in authority to the superintendent of schools 
for the white schools and to the colored assistant 
superintendent for the colored schools, to whom 
in each case he shall be directly responsible. 

DIRECTORS. 

Sec. 8. That the salary of the directors shall be 
as follows : Directors of drawing, physical cul- 
ture, music, fifteen hundred dollars, with an annu- 
al increase of one hundred dollars for five years ; 
domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens 
shall receive a salary of one thousand five hun- 
dred dollars per annum with an annual increase of 
fifty dollars per year for five years ; the assistant 
directors of drawing, physical culture, music, do- 
mestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, in 
charge of colored schools shall receive a salary of 
one thousand three hundred dollars per annum, 
with an annual increase of fifty dollars per year 
for five years ; the director of primary instruction 
shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hun- 
dred dollars per year, with an increase of fifty 
dollars per year for five years; the assistant 
director of primary instruction, in charge of col- 
ored schools, shall receive a salary of one thous- 
and four hundred dollars, with an increase of fifty 
dollars per year for five years. Directors and 
assistant directors shall be appointed at the min- 
imum salary. 

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PAY OF OIPFICERS. 

Sec. 9. That the pay of officers shall be as fol- 
lows : The superintendent, five thousand dollars; 
the assistant superintendents, three thousand dol- 
lars each ; director of intermediate instruction, su- 
pervisor of manual training, and supervising prin- 
cipals, two thousand two hundred dollars per 
annum, with an increase of one hundred dollars 
per year for five years. 

Director of intermediate instruction, supervisor 
of manual training, and supervising principals who 
may be hereafter appointed shall be appointed at 
the minimum salary provided in this Act unless 
the said salary is less than that received at the 
time of his appointment. 

Sec. 10. When a teacher is on trial or being in- 
vestigated he or she shall have the right to be 
attended by counsel and by at least one friend of 
his or her selection. 

Sec. II. That a commission, consisting of the 
superintendent of schools, the Engineer Commis- 
sioner, and the Supervising Architect of the 
Treasury Department, is hereby created for the 
purpose of submitting to Congress at its session 
beginning December, nineteen hundred and six — 

First. A general plan for the consolidation of 
the public schools in the District of Columbia, and 
the abandonment and sale of such school build- 
ings and sites as may by them be deemed neces- 
sary and desirable for the best good of the public 
school service. 

Second. A general plan for the character, size, 
and location of school buildings in accordance 
with which the educational and business interests 
of the public school system may be subserved. 

Sec. 12. That wherever the masculine pronoun 
occurs in this Act it shall be construed to apply 
to either male or female teachers or employees of 
the board of education. 

Sec 13. That this Act shall take effect on the 
first day of July, nineteen hundred and six, and 
all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed. 

Approved, June 20, 1906. 



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INDEX TO THE APPENDIX. 

(a) Coinpulsorv Education Law. 

Page. 

Absence of children 44 

Ag( s of children for compulsory attendance 44 

Attendance of children 44 

Certificate of attendance vipon instruction 44 

Course of study for non-attendant children 44 

Kmployers of children 45 

Excuse for non-attendance of children 44 

Juvenile court 45 

Misdemeanor, person guilty of ' 45 

Parent or guardian of children ..-?;'.''.-'.'.■.•'•.•.':".'. . 44 

Parochial schools .■.'.■..•.■.•.•.■.■.■..•. 44 

T'enalty — ' 

for false statements 45 

for not sending child to school , 45 

for unlawfully employing children 45 

Private schools 44 

Prosecution of parent or guardian 44 

Truant officers- — 

api>ointment 45 

shall visit i>laces and establishments; shall secin^e lists of 

children em])loyed 43 

Truants 45 

l^ngraded schools — 

commitments of children to; restoration to graded schools 45 

(b) Tuition Law. 

Tuition charged — 

of whom re<|uired; when payable 46 

(c) Medical Inspection. 

Pules and regulations 40-59 

(d) Prevention of Flagrant Diseases. 

l^xtracts from the regulations 60 

. (e) Prevention of the More Flagrant Diseases. 

I'A'tracts from An Act to prevent the spread of smallpox and otlicr 

contagious diseases in the District of Columbia 62 



(f) Organic Law. 



Api^ointnicnts of officers and teachers 63 

Assistant directors of special subjects Gj 

Assistant superintendents (m, 



Board of education- 
powers and duties; membership; shall transmit estimates for 
appropriations to the Commissioners of the District of 

Columbia 63 

shall appoint superintendent; shall have power to remove super- 
intendent 64 

shall classify academic and scientific studies in high and manual 

training schools 66 

shall arrange teachers in classes and groups; may promote 

teachers from one class to another 67 

Building commission 70 

Classes of pupils in high schools 66 

Director of intermediate instruction 65 

Directors of special subjects 67 

Dismissals 63 

Examinations — 

teachers who are not reiiuired lo take same 68 

Rxaminers 68 

Tiead of department 66 

Head teacher 66 

Masculine pronoun 70 

Principals — 

salary and increase for 1907 ; appointment 67 

l>ay for session rooms; salary and increase for 5 years for 
iiormal, high, and manual training ^ 6q 

Promotions 63 

Public scliools — 

control vested in board of education 63 

Repeal act 70 

Salaries — 

schedvile for teachers, school officers and other employees -65 

Session rooms 69 

Sessions 63 

Superintendent — 

shall be appointed for three years; direct and supervise matters 
pertaining .to instruction; shall have a seat in board: shall 

not have right to vote; may be removed by board 64 

Sujiervising princii)als 67 

Sui^erVisrtr of manual training 65 

Teachers — 

a)>pointment; degrees; certificates: exjierience 

(Promotion upon recommendation; promotion upon recommenda- 
tion and approval after examination; salary 67 

Teachers, special v,., 65 

Transfers ,.^3 

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